Quotes About Expression

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

I was devastated when they stopped making sailors' pants with bell bottoms. There's something sort of spirited about the way they affected a man's gait. They project something good-natured.

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing... and I just never really stopped.

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

I have never stopped playing music.

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.

I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I think when I first started out, I had a kind of an exuberance about language, comedy, narrative leaps that... stopped just short of non sequiturs. And I'm much more cautious now.

I haven't danced since I stopped at 28. I haven't even taken a class.

When I lived in Paris, I would shop at antique shops and buy these huge coats because I was very cold. And then I started performing in them because I felt safe. I never stopped doing that.

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I still can't pay attention - and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.

I stopped doing interviews for a long time because the words were mine, but they were in the wrong order. Context is a very important thing - a lot of the things I say aren't serious, and so to remove the laughter does me no favours.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.