Quotes About Expression

I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

I really pay attention to makeup artists and what they do with me.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things.

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

I never had a paying job that was not in theatre.

If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

I gave in to the idea of paying attention to what you like and letting it help you make better stuff.

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic.

I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

We have the right to peacefully assemble in the United States.

I want a country where you can express different ideas peacefully and not be bothered and arrested unfairly for it. I want a country where you shouldn't be scared to say that you are an atheist, for example.

The FBI holds sacred the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms.

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.