Quotes About Expression

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I've had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.