Quotes About Expression

I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just kind of take over sometimes.

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?

All my writer friends outline their books, and I find that hard. It doesn't feel inspired to me. I get bored with that, and really, I just want it to be fun.

Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Any musical output is emotional.

Acting is just another facet and it will not affect my output as a music director.

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.

I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

People want to engage you by being outraged or faux-outraged at things you're saying, but if you confront them and defend yourself, then people don't like it. But then if you don't and you stay quiet, people don't like that either.

When you make giant things for people, they don't always fit; they're not always happy with something that's that big or that kind of outrageous compared to what they usually wear.

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.