Quotes About Expression

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.

I keep surprising myself with films like 'Mission Kashmir,' 'Albela,' 'Farz,' and 'Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai.' All the roles are very different.

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.

On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

So many things influence me in one way or another. Some might be surprising, but that's OK.