Quotes About Expression

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

We don't do this kind of work for awards or to be recognised. We do this to share stories with the world.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

I'm grateful for being able to explore different avenues of my writing, whether it be music or stories, and it have an audience.

I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

I'm ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, 'Deaf people can dance.'

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I'm not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas... his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.