Quotes About Expression

The truth lies not in any claim to reality, but in the place where what is real moves beyond our interpretation of it. True art means seeking to capture the unreal.

the way people feel forced to use English, how much of themselves must get left behind in that transition, like people being told to leave their homes and take only a few essential items with them.

I feel like my heart is talking to you all the time.

My difficulty, I saw then, had always lain in finding a way to give back all the impressions I had received, to render an account to a god who had never come and never come, despite my desire to surrender everything that was stored inside me. Yet even so my receptive faculty had not, for some reason, failed me: I had remained a devourer while yearning to become a creator

I am one of those who believes that without suffering there can be no art

Er wisse nicht, das wolle er an dieser Stelle betonen, ob er jemals wieder ein Buch schreiben werde; sein Verhältnis zur Welt sei unzureichend dynamisch.

Writers need to hide in bourgeois life like ticks need to hide in an animal's fur: the deeper they're buried the better.

She had sat there, she said, and thought about her own lifelong habit of explaining herself, and she thought about this power of silence, which put people out of one another's reach.

Some people write simply because they don't know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards.

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

Em arte a gente não quer astúcias intelectuais, mas vida pulsando, embora sem saber como pulsa e por que pulsa

If you want to cry go ahead. Son, there are just some time in a man's life when he has to let it out.

Music is only work when someone else makes you do it.

He looked at me again and his eyes shone in the lamplight, or with the inner light of delighted anticipation. His enthusiasm made him beautiful.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

My music is being condemned strictly for publicity and votes.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

I've got genuine political reasons for not voting for David Cameron. He's got a tiny little mouth.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.