Quotes About Expression

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

You want the personality of each performer - whether it's singing or bass or drums or piano - to be intact. In some ways it's much more challenging to preserve that and to also make music that sounds modern.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that.

One of the important things to look at is kids who aren't cheerleaders or aren't the student-body presidents. In 'Daddy Day Care,' one of the kids would only communicate in Klingon. I get that kind of a kid.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

One of the best things that we have in India is a free press.

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

Pressure' is the perfect first single, it just felt right. As an artist, you have to feel it out and let it happen naturally.

And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.