Quotes About Expression

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

The conventional idea of beauty is so boring.

I'm not from a conventional world, innit? So the fact that I'm getting a chance to express my world in society and TV is epic.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

I always made my songs very conversational, and if anyone ever has a conversation with me, they know I'm a very open guy, very open and honest.

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.

Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.

I can only get to a certain point as I write and then I have individual conversations with everyone that I cast. I always do a rewrite based on the conversations.

I would really like to hear somebody who is really articulate about the elements of their faith conversion. I'm not.

How can I be happy when my songs are converted into a circus?

We know how to convey exactly what we want to convey. We know how it makes us feel and we know exactly how to show our fans how to feel the same way.

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.