Quotes About Expression

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

Growing up, I always loved working with people. I love playing with people and having that moment of discovering something different. I believe in the magic of what music is.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.

I have no discretion when it comes to airing things.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.

Obviously I would never have agreed to be a part of something that would change the colour of my skin had I been playing a human. The bottom line is, I'm playing a cat. There is no more discussion. I am a cat that's white, let's not read into it.

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.