Quotes About Expression

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.

If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

At some point the label 'hard-rocker' began to get on my nerves, and I decided to break those chains. My music definitely doesn't sound like AC/DC or the Scorpions - nothing against either of these bands, they're okay. But I was fed up with that image.

I've always had a thing for playing in front of people, and the nerves never really creep in too much for some reason for me.

Dre says it gets on his nerves when I try to rap. He'd rather have me sing.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

I'm nervous, but once I get a guitar on and start a song, after the first few seconds, I can feel it ease. I don't have to worry about anything other than the music.

Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.

Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns - in the little experience I have doing them - is that there's no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.

There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.

As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.

Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.