Quotes About Expression

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

I'm confident as hell when I step in front of the mic.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to.

Now when I step onstage, I have this hour when I can just be completely myself, just a massive ball of energy. Sometimes I get so lost in the performance, people look a little frightened - but that's a good thing.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.

Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'

Music is a way of expressing my mood, and it definitely helps to motivate me before a game. It also helps me move on from past defeats or keeps my mind busy when I'm not playing, so music is definitely something that follows me every step of every day.

I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my own. When I started this, I didn't say, 'okay I'm going to do this step and then this step' to become popular. I just created music that I loved.

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

I personally think that it is acceptable if I take a step forward and can act with more diverse expressions and feelings.

Yehudi Wyner has reinvented for himself a Romanticism that somehow manages to seem like a step forward rather than a step back.

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

One of the very few things that I actually read about myself on blogs that got to me was people saying, 'Ne-Yo doesn't do R&B music anymore.' Just because I stepped off the porch to explore doesn't mean I don't live in that house anymore.

The first time that I stepped onto a stage, it was life-changing. For once, I felt comfortable and in a place where I belonged. It changed my life forever.

Every time I stepped onto the stage as Jesus, it felt like someone was pouring some honey into my body. It was amazing, an amazing feeling. And then when I had to let go of it, it was hard.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.