Quotes About Expression

The arts are a celebration of life.

It was getting very boring to watch celebrities all wearing the same dress.

Celebrities have nothing to do with style.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

I want to be an artist. I don't want to be a celebrity.

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

I just love writing songs and singing them. People seem to enjoy them, and that's all you can really ask for. I didn't get into it to try to be a celebrity or whatever.

I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

I censor myself all the time.

You can't censor people's dreams.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

I can't allow myself to censor myself.

People can't write whatever they want and get away with it. There is a censor for films and TV, there should be a censor for social media as well.

Censor board should be abolished.

When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!

The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

Why censor yourself? You got to tell the truth as you see it.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.