Quotes About Expression

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.

Writing about food is my default.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

A writer has to fully defend his rights and his own worth.

I'm not really going to defend anyone's lyrics.

I learned how to defend myself at the OSB, not physically but with words.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

There is more than just words to define a person.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it.

I've never felt particularly comfortable in any defined boundaries, ever.