Quotes About Expression

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

I just post what I want to, it's as simple there's no strategy or trying to send out a message in any way.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.

For me, music is a byproduct of this process - the human process - and the fact that I've managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy.

A lot of labels always feel the need to tell you how they think the music should be marketed and what songs work best where. I say make music you love doing, come up with a strategy, and put it out there.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

If I have to answer one more time, 'Why did you want to remake 'Straw Dogs?'' with the emphasis on the word 'why,' I'm going to flip out.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.

If I can hear the music then no, I don't hit a wrong note. But if I can't hear the music because the audience is screaming or the sound system is bad, then I'm subject to stray.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

It's not that I don't experience absolute sadness, which is very unentertaining, but I think - when I'm being really honest about myself - I think there's, like, a really performative streak in my personality.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

There's a bunch of rules that I want to break. I have a rule-breaking streak.

When MC Hammer came out, I was wearing parachute pants and patent leather shoes and a high top fade with a blonde streak in it like Kwame.

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

I love and enjoy playing characters with a comic streak.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

I like comics like Janeane Garofalo who is very stream of conscious in an honest way.

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry a couple times. But I don't think that's right. It was more scribblings and stream of consciousness.

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.