Quotes About Expression

Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

I felt brave when I sang and could put into lyrics what I couldn't tell anybody else.

Fleabag' is genius: there's something so brave about a character voicing what we're all thinking but are too embarrassed to say.

I hope for continued bravery and risk-taking for all theatremakers in 2018 and beyond.

The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.

I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard Ramirez or whatever comes to mind. I just write.

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged.

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

I only take up roles that really appeal to me, and like to break the rules as an actress.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

Being a female, I know what it's like to go through a bad break up and not get to say what you really want to.

I had sadness for breakfast.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

I love being on Aussie breakfast TV. They like people who speak their mind and tell it like it is.

I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.

Whenever someone wants to say something to a whole mass of people by breaking into song, there's probably something wrong with them.

It's good to see your songs breaking the barriers of language.

There are so many situations when you feel like your heart is breaking. I keep those emotions pent up, so I can create stories around them and shape what I would say from another perspective.

I feel like my breakout moment had to have been when I dropped 'Drip Season 3.' I feel like it was just a real good body of music.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.