Quotes About Expression

I always loved the sheer physical act of being onstage.

You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.

If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.

Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.

Everything I'm thinking in my head goes onto my face, so you can see right through me.

I think, in general, as a writer, you can't really hide your values. They're always going to fall out onto the page, and I tend to trust that I don't have to force my ideals into the expression of what's going to happen naturally.

Sometimes I'm just like, 'I cannot hold onto this anymore,' and it's time to say something. And at the end of the day, I've just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out.

I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.

When we walk onto that stage I'm not feeling like I'm ruled by any other band.

At the time, when I was growing up,my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I'm listening to, what I'm writing, how I'm feeling.

I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.