Quotes About Expression

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I'm doing this.

It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

I love dancing as it is a great stress buster.

The secret to a great Halloween costume, and I can't stress this enough, is in my opinion is to extract sexuality out of your costume.

Kids in Flint don't even know that you can write to express your feelings and go to the gym and work out, you can run, you can do whatever you love to help relieve stress.

I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.

When I'm feeling stressed out and overwhelmed, sometimes I'll read a book. But most of the time, I will either listen to music or play music. I'm basically always playing music, even if I'm not stressed!

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.

I cry if something bad happens. I grab a drink with friends when I get stressed out. I travel. I sometimes lash out at my closest friends.

I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

I think if you're stressed, it shows in every part of you; how you carry yourself, which then affects your pose, how you hold your face, which then makes you look stressed and so nothing looks relaxed.

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.

It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

On stage you're supposed to have fun and play different licks and stretch out. You're not supposed to copy your records exactly.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

I will safely say that I prefer singing a song in a stretch if I am allowed to. A lot of times, I do choose to and do sing the asthayi and antara in one take, respectively. And I give a few takes until I feel it is perfect.

I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.