Quotes About Expression

My biggest love has always been the music Black Veil Brides make, but that doesn't mean I don't listen to or enjoy other things.

For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

I wouldn't start writing songs like 'Name' all the time just because I thought that's what people wanted to hear. I'll write a song in the same vein because it's what I want to write.

I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.

As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.

When Dudamel is up on the podium, he truly is 'inside' the music. It courses in his veins, mixing with his blood.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

It's very hard to grow up in the African American church and for music to not be in your veins. It's just part of the fabric of who we are as people, especially black musicians.

I loved 'Blue Velvet.'

I love the Velvet Underground, bro.

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.