Quotes About Expression

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago... The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

The thing is with us is, we never want to be predictable. But at the same time we know what our fans love and we know what kind of sounds we want to get across to everyone.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.

I always prefer a good script, be it a movie or drama script.

I can be pretty, I just prefer not to.

That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it.