Quotes About Expression

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

I don't think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music you want to show. You're not trying to win something big with it.

We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

I don't presume to describe myself as a creator anymore, but I certainly love the process, and I hope I can do a lot of great things for the talent who are in and around DC.

Acting was in my instincts, I presume.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

Artists can be themselves. They don't have to pretend to be somebody they're not.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.