Quotes About Expression

Music is a way of opening up.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I can and explore more while I do it. I feel more comfortable with opening up and telling more of my story to everyone.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

What's an opening night without forgetting some lyrics?

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I never express.

I've become more comfortable with opening up.

Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.

I create openings, and I move. I fight. It's an art form.

I'd say I'm not openly gay. I'm just gay.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

If some people think it shows a feminine side to be in the theater, I've never felt that. And I'll openly say that an intelligent person who is a sensitive person will be and should be in touch with their inner female.

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.

I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.

I like a nice rumble on bass, openness on guitar and drums that breathe.

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.

I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.