Quotes About Expression

I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

I love music with a violence and a fury that feels unqualified.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

I think in circles; I speak in circles. I unravel my thoughts that way.

Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes.

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.

At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually and as a nation.

When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.

The more stories I told, the more I found I wanted to tell. There was always something left unsaid. I got hooked by my own impulse of 'Well, what's gonna happen next?'

I try to be happy. I try to face things without regret or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.