Quotes About Expression

I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries.

Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one's going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest. Things are a lot more acceptable said in a song than it would be in person. Art excuses a lot of things.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I write a diary every day.

I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.

A lot of music is like a diary for me.

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

I'm an improvisational actor. I like to do my own thing. But once in a while, I think you should have the self-restraint to let someone else dictate the story.

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

We can't be dictated to by radio. Radio needs to play what we send them.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.