Quotes About Expression

One of the reasons we set up this country, one of the things we celebrate in freedom and democracy of the United States is you can criticize your president. You can criticize the ways in which the country falls short of its values.

I can't be manic without it feeling false to me.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.

I don't write for fame or money, I simply want to share my experiences.

Creativity is not about the fame.

I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.

I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's 'Somebody's Baby' or Nina Berberova's 'The Tattered Cloak.'

Try to say something familiar in a unique way so that it's sing-alongable, even if you don't speak English.

I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

Music can tear me up inside.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in... it sucks that people tear you down.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.

I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?