Quotes About Expression

Being in New York has definitely intensified my desire to be different and individual.

Music is so universal, and so I love that we can all be different, and we can all just show that.

Naturally, if I'm singing over really loud music, my approach is gonna be different than if I'm singing over some quiet acoustic music.

I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world, and I don't see why it should be different in India.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and be different.

Our culture of the Bay Area is a place where you want to be different. You want to be seen. You want to be heard.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

I have to be creative to be happy.

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

I need to write to be happy.

The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.

I am trying to make the kind of film that I would be happy to see.

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

I think people are afraid to be original.

There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.

I don't try to be original; I just always want to do something that excites me.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.