Quotes About Expression

For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw.

Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

I felt like by doing 'Turned Up,' it was something for my fans. It would be a great outlet for me to come out musically and really step up my game.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

I think it's really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more compartmentalized and is more impulse-driven.

Anything that exposes the arts more, that gives us an outlet to make money and also do what we enjoy doing as artists and to connect with the fans, I'm all for it.

Comedy's my outlet for my ridiculous emotions.

If you don't have an outlet, you become a criminal - or misanthropic.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn't know when, or how it was gonna happen.

Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark.

There's always a need for our kind of music. It's an outlet. You can only listen to so much pop and you just have to listen to something heavy.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.

Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only a little bit.

When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

Theater is an amazing outlet.