Quotes About Expression

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.

I love dressing up. I like going out and buying some crazy stuff. I like stuff that's new, innovative and weird. I just pick out stuff that is unique and anything that I'm really diggin'. I don't really care if it's kind of out there. That's what I'm about. I like picking stuff that is really different.

Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I'm not really sure what I look for when I'm picking out clothes.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.

I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.

Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.

Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it.

I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.

I sign up whatever live shows I get simply because every gig is a chance to reach out directly to the audience. When it comes to gigs, I try mixing personal picks with what the audience demands.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

We definitely wanted to show we're a band that can be around, and we have something to say other than the lighter, 'pickup line' sort of songs.

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

It's amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.

When I make a picture, I make love.