Quotes About Expression

My first memory of Umbro was when I refused to take off my orange and purple Umbro checkerboard shorts for church at five years old. I won that battle, and that drive to express myself and stay true to myself, even as a kid, is why I'm so excited about my partnership with Umbro.

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.

I know there are actors who won't kiss on screen, and I respect that, but I don't have any rules like that. I will stay true to the script.

It's very important to me to stay true to who I am as a musician and the songs that I love.

I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.

I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.

I never regret or sit back and think that I shouldn't have said something. There are a lot of people who tell me that you shouldn't say this or that or should keep quiet, and I really think that I can either be true to my conscience or can live a fake life by staying quiet.

I've always been an artist that has had a problem with genres, staying in the box, and being told what I had to be.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

I feel like Prince's artistry inspired me as far as staying true to myself and my artistry and what is important to me in my life and applying, you know, all the things that I ever been through into my music, the same way he kinda did in 'Purple Rain.'

Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like.

Being the drummer of Fall Out Boy, and any other project I've ever done, is most importantly about playing for the music. Staying out of the way when it's needed and playing more when it makes sense.

Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

I take pride in lyrics. I take pride in music and staying on beat and being on key.