Quotes About Expression

I think I have the capability to make music different from what I have already released. There are ghazals and other songs that I can create. There is no stopping me though.

Just because you have a mouth and nobody is stopping you, you can't say whatever you want.

I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.

St. Lucia represents, for me, where I found myself musically once I stopped trying to be cool, in some way, and stopped stopping these guilty pleasure influences I had from coming through.

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.

There's no stopping and no limits on what musicians and artists can produce.

I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.

I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

Music stops you from thinking.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.