Quotes About Expression

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

Sometimes people chat loosely. Sometimes people just speak their minds and what's on their mind ain't necessarily real or facts, so I don't take it too serious. I'm more interested in making the music, I don't really play that.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.

That's where I think a lot of these guys today are just, 'I'm the drummer, man. Check it out. Here's my lick. I just learned this new drum lick. I'm just gonna blast all over the place.' It's like, 'Man, you've got to let the song breathe.'

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am female.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

I grew up on rock and roll like My Chemical Romance, who were actually genuinely talking about and saying things.

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.

We always trained never to really talk about things and get it off our chests but I think now everybody is more open about it.

That aggression came over time from dealing with stuff - 'Anger Management' really is what it's called. That project came out and I felt a weight lifted off my chest. I learned something about myself.

I just wanted to make music, because it's how I get stuff off my chest. I want it to always feel like my escape.

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

I did not want to follow Chi Udayashankerji; now Yogaraj Bhat does not want to follow me in writing lyrics.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.