Quotes About Expression

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

I used to dye my hair different colors and have crazy periods, especially early in my career when I played in Italy.

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

I've gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it's not a problem. It just means something's building inside you, and it'll build and it'll build, and at some point it'll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.

I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.

I draw a lot of inspiration from different time periods.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.

That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

People's access to social media should not permanently be restricted.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.