Quotes About Expression

For me, writing is just processing.

Luckily, my only responsibility for 'Still Processing' is to show up and talk.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

I can dance - I can dance a little bit. I can move. I don't - I'm not a - I don't proclaim to be a dancer, but I can move. But instruments, playing the drums, I probably play the drums better than I walk, better than I do anything.

In school, my biggest fear was that I couldn't produce emotion on cue.

I design music; I don't produce it.

I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.