Quotes About Expression

Rap is good for politics because when you make a rap record, you put good music on a track and people listen to you. It's easier than trying to preach.

If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

I'm a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I don't think of myself as a preacher.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

Literature precedes genre.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

I know that money is precious - but, at least to me, laughter and expression are even more so.

I'd be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn't precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

Baby fashion has become such a big thing. It used to be that everything had to be pink or blue or cute - you know, very precious - but not cool. But now, my friends who are mothers really want to dress their kids just like themselves.

I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.