Quotes About Expression

Culture derives its meaning from man's faith in God; it is never an end in itself, but always a means of expressing one's religious faith.

Culture is "lived religion". It is the form that religion takes in the lives of men.

Culture is not a peripheral concern, but the of the very essence of life. It is an expression of man's essential being as created in the image of God. Since mans is essentially a religious being, culture is expressive of his relationship to God, that is, of his religion.

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Some music really does suck!

The world's a better place since I chose music.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

My dick is a macho shithead but the rest of me is a sensitive, caring and gentle guy.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

I think there will always be great new music and bands. As long as there's people around, there's going to be great music. I think there's bands like Wolf Eyes, Q & Not U, the Evens and many others that are doing great stuff. The music that doesn't please you, you just don't listen. No one makes me listen to Nickelback, so long may they wave.

I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters telling me to go back to Russia or whatever.

My records are good friends. They're an army. Standing straight, in rows, ready to go. Prepared to neutralize sadness and the sometimes crushing pointlessness of almost every pursuit. My heart will not break because my records have built a wall around it.

Music makes life possible.

As you conform, depression can get you. Music is the literal soundtrack of emancipation from the depressing straightjacket of normality.

Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

Like what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.