Quotes About Expression

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music.

To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose weight sometimes, and I grow my hair and cut it. Acting is all about physical expression, so I need to change my appearance for all the characters.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Many people make fun of me because I'm always so dressed up, but they don't understand that there's a little girl inside me who always wanted to be that dressed up but never got to do that because I was always a certain weight.

My name is an acronym for EA - EA All Day. It's a persona that I developed over the years in sports as a caricature of myself. On the field, in practice, in the weight room, I was just a character and a personality.

Where's your will to be weird?

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.

If I'm wearing the wrong clothes I can't think. It sounds so weird but it just has to be the right fabrics and like the right feeling on my body.

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.

Songwriting's a weird game.

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.