Quotes About Expression

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

I think colouring your hair is the best way to get a new look.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

The best way to get me to write more books is to read the ones that exist!

We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

My best work happened on the stage.

I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.

It's hard when you're writing for someone else. You obviously always want to do your best work, but sometimes you write and have a song idea and you're like, 'Oh, it's so good I want to keep it for us.'

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

I think if it is something an actor believes in and has an opinion on it, then there is no better way to use that platform.

There's a part of me that's very stereotypically Australian, with the lingo, or for lack of a better way of putting it, the way white Australians would speak. And then, Oh, that's not all I am.

'Lemonade' resonated with me, and I love the direction Beyonce is going with her music and her career.

I'm not Beyonce or Trey Songz or anything, so every now and again, I feel a little like, 'Are they listening to me, or am I just sounding crazy singing to myself?' I feel like that sometimes.

Try performing with your period. Like really, and then call me back. I know Beyonce has. I know Nicki has. I know all of the legendary women have had to do that. A man can't do that.

Beyonce has a platform; what's a better way to speak on your platform than through your music?

If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.

Being from a big band is great because you can do other bands.

I'm a big believer in bringing in other creative minds; I do it in my commercial work.