Quotes About Expression

I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings who behave differently than ordinary human beings. If they weren't as sensitive as they are, they wouldn't be great artists. They are not the same as us. People should just learn to accept that.

I do a film because at that particular moment, I want to make a film. It is my attempt at moving away from the ordinary.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I don't like playing to guitar players, actually. I'd rather just play to ordinary people.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.

For me, it's always an organic process. I don't personally reach out to artists without the music being created first.

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.

What's so wonderful about the street is it's organic music. No preservatives. There's no other reason to be out there except you just love music and want to play.

A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.

At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.