Quotes About Expression

Too much conscious mind mucks up the artist's natural creativity.

If you draw, if you dance, if you like poetry, if you like spoken word, whatever, if you like polka dots—use who you are, who you really are, as a positive. That's your superpower.

I've learned that my value isn't in how many records I've sold or how many concert arenas I've filled or how many awards I've won. We can't define ourselves simply by how much money we've made or how well we've done on the job or in school. I realize now that my value is in my ideas, my willingness to share in order to help others, my ever-growing desire to stand firm on an issue and not back down.

I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

For me at least, genderqueer includes an aspect of questioning," Sasha explains. "The fact that I was questioning my gender meant that I was genderqueer.

It's YOUR story, kid. You can color it any way you want.

John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing.... No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light.... The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for twenty-five pages." Dava Sobel, Longitude, p66

For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rhythmbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Communication is a beautiful thing, when it works.

A sheep in wolf's clothing should not bleat within the pack.

L'écriture permettait d'accumuler les connaissances

Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous?

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

People despise critics because people despise weakness, and criticism is the weakest thing you can do in writing. It is the written equivalent of air guitar—flurries of silent, sympathetic gestures with nothing at their heart but the memory of the music.