Quotes About Expression

T'ain't no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.

Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

I've always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it's amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things

Singing is just doing interesting things to the air. Elongating it and twisting it into shapes.

Songs are really just interesting things to be doing with the air

I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Song-forms are just like jello molds, ya know? I like goofing around. [ Pour some flavor in there? ] Yeah; and wait for it to sit.

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Five is a Four letter word.

Having a body tattoo is like wearing the same shirt everyday for the rest of your life.

My name translated into Chinese is "Hy Yu"

Since the beginning of time man has done three things when he communicates both in speaking and in the written form. He will Generalize, Omit & Exaggerate.

Tattoos are just one more way to identify a body.

Tattoos are just one more way to identify the body.

Thank God for white paint because many of my paintings have paintings underneath them because I'm a perfectionist and if I don't like my art I'm pretty sure no one else will.