Quotes About Expression

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

A film sells feelings.

Once I decided I was happy with something, I'd try to send it off into the world, and either someone would want it exactly as it was, or it would remain in my notebook/laptop, and no one would ever see it. This is probably why I didn't work with an editor until I was 26. The solipsism!

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.

I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.