Quotes About Expression

My favorite pastime is to write.

Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.

I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'.

Each song takes a different path through a different headspace.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

There's no one way to grieve, and there's no one path.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who are artists.

We want to empower artists and filmmakers to forge new paths.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

You have to have patience and confidence that your things will let you know where they need to go. Particularly artwork. Paintings will tell you where they want to be.

Club music taught me so much about myself: having patience or appreciating a different type of way of taking in life. That, to me, is like what 'Off the Wall' is. Or 'I Feel Love' or 'Rock Your Baby' with George McCrae.

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

I had to learn about patience, to let the music get its own spirit and voice.

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.