Quotes About Expression

Jimmy Bowen: You've got to find your own songs, because nobody but you knows what you want to sing.

You know, Martin, most of us learn in grade school that saying things like 'I'm so lonely' doesn't impress women.

saying these words is like speaking avocodo. warm, ripe juicy mango.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.

Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do.

Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

You don't get that opportunity often to press the reset button, get in a studio, and just be free and creative. I think that's such a special thing to happen.

With '3 Mics', there's nothing I'm talking about that's too hot button.

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I feel like there's no one kind of person who comes to my shows. Sometimes I've been surprised by the people who will stop me on the street to tell me that they're into my music.

You can say something, make something, and be rewarded for it by the people you're speaking to.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I really love Death Cab.

I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

I've always wanted to do a cabaret.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.