Quotes About Expression

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.

A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

Geek culture is all about being super passionate about your interests and not afraid to express them, even if your interests are unpopular.

Deep inside, we all want to blurt out every obnoxious, politically incorrect, unpopular truism we think lurks inside us.

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.

The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.

In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.

Life is unpredictable, and I feel, to some extent, lighting and cinematography should be a reflection of that.

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.

Music is so unpredictable, but it's universal.

Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.

There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.

I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or, really, any form of music. Songs travel, and people take them into their lives in all different kinds of unpredictable and really untraceable ways.

A constant goal of mine is to try to put myself back in the place when I wrote something - not just to perform it on a surface level, but to re-enter that headspace, that emotion. That's the point of a live show - for it to feel immediate and present and a little bit unpredictable.

I've written in the middle of a conversation or the grocery store or at another band's concert or in the last moments before falling asleep. It's pretty unpredictable. I think it's always flowing, and sometimes I'm not listening. There's no formula for when I'm going to be able to be a good listener to myself.

Sadness can feel so unproductive.