Quotes About Expression

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

Lil Jon was definitely a pioneer for some of the punk-rap acts we see now. He showed you could scream on a song and still have a hit on the radio.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

We need new voices, new people, new activists and new ideologies in the piracy scene.

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

I done seen a lot of fights and mosh pits.

It's funny 'cause the Rhea Ripley that everyone sees, I've looked into that personality so many times before, just at home, in concerts, in mosh pits.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

Sometimes things are said on the pitch that people won't see at home. There's a bit of banter on the pitch as well.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

I need to keep quiet and do my talking on the pitch.

Obviously, I have arguments with people on the pitch, with all the emotions.

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.

I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

I started rapping towards the end of middle school. In high school, with a lot of my friends, we would make beats and just start rapping - beating on the wall, beating on the table and freestyling.

I don't sit down and say, 'Today I will write a song.' I know a lot of people that do that, but if I'm not in the mood, what's the point of beating my head against the wall?

Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.