Quotes About Expression

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

I cried watching 'Million Dollar Baby.' I'm a big baby, man.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

I've stopped asking for criticism, even from friends, because I don't think anyone knows my little world of mega-thorough critical thinking/musical comic rambling better than I do.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

People are going to criticize you no matter what, so I'm going to say whatever the hell I want to say.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

People have a right to criticize.