Quotes About Expression

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

All of my songs are so hyper-specific - that they can seem universal is a beautiful thing.

One of the beautiful things about music is it gives you an opportunity to learn how to tell the truth, and it's a life-long learning process.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully etched.

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

I am a thing of beauty.

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to go out there.

If the whole idea, in the original bebop days, was to get to soloing, then that's all it should be about.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

My kids would not get in to bed every night without me telling them that I loved them.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I just used to make up stories for the kids at bedtime and my wife goes, 'you should start putting that stuff down.' It's such a joy to do.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

What we're always looking for in students is who they are, and I think that's something that happens on the 'Sewing Bee.'

I am not advocating beef eating. But I am advocating freedom to have an opinion and a voice.

I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing essays. I think they were at least happy I was excited about school.