Quotes About Expression

Music is the outlet for me because when I do step into the studio, I feel no barriers.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

There are many things I love about my job! For instance, as a creative outlet, there's no better way to express myself than through choreography and physical movement.

In my daily life, I tend to be very literal and unsuperstitious. But music gives me an outlet to be very emotional.

I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.

I always needed a physical outlet, this is always who I've been.

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I guess I would rap.

Music was my only outlet as a teenager. I always had the gift of music; I was singing at the age of four.

Art is a creative outlet and necessary for people involved in creativity.

Musically, I feel like the band was always my outlet.

I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It's important to have that creative outlet - I'm really passionate about it.

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

I'm not really good with explaining myself verbally, but I do it through music and other outlets.

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

I can't sit still for long and need creative outlets and think you should try different things. I mean, if you're a musician all of your life, you gotta try different things. I really believe you can have it all.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.