Quotes About Expression

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

I wasn't interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.

I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.

I did not fix any genre for 'AK.' We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as they perceive it.

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.

I'm very grateful that anyone takes the time to read what I write, coming from people perceive to be exclusively a musical background and having no traditional schooling in writing.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

No artist wants to be perceived as a regurgitator.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be perceived.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.