Quotes About Expression

You should always speak up. That's what I like to teach my fans - to be real and speak up for things you're passionate about.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.

On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.

Be authentic, be true, sing what's in your heart.

To be real, you have to sing about what you feel, and you have to be true to your fans.

It's not easy to always be yourself.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.

You have to definitely be yourself in order to stand out.

I love being an anchor, as it gives you a chance to be yourself.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

I learned that all you need to do is be yourself.

I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.

'Rockaway Beach' is a great song, and so is 'Listen to My Heart.'

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

Dance is such a wonderful, universal expression, even if the bugle beads are wrong.

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

I look like Scooby-Doo in a beard.