Quotes About Expression

It can't just be about being sexy. It has to have all the emotions involved, I think, on the album and in the live show. Because if you do all sex, you lose all of the other beautiful things that should be a part of it... And just being sexy will get you nowhere.

I generally write the songs accidentally. They generally come out of nowhere.

Instagram doesn't leave a lot of room for nuance.

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

In everything I do, having it be important or try to express something or it having the ability to demystify something or draw attention to the nuance of something is always interesting to me.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

I'm a writer, so I like nuances.

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

I am who I am. I can't do anything that doesn't have nuances of all the music I've done in the past.

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

It's my music. It's my craft. If you don't like it, then turn it off. Don't listen to it. But a lot of people listen to it... The numbers, they add up.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

I was by no means a nun.

Nursery rhymes were political when they were first written! To me, that's what it's about: it's about using it to say something more than just what the story is.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.