Quotes About Expression

First and foremost, I make music to satisfy my creative urges, but at the same time, I know my fans are waiting, so they're the ones that push me to keep going.

I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That's just my life. Plus, I love it. It's amazing to connect with so many people.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.

Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.

It's very easy to think about rhymes and just usage of words that sound good but don't mean anything. Basically, I try to put into song the way people actually talk.

Linguists have noticed that across the history of language some words start out as obvious, conscious metaphors and then slowly embed themselves in our daily usage in such a way that we're no longer aware that they are metaphors.

I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

We use art to combat the dark side of capitalism.

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.