Quotes About Expression

I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Now everybody's sampling.

Every now and then, I deserve to say what I feel.

We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'

Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished.

I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

Minimal art went nowhere.

There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.