Quotes About Expression

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

I can't wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.

I want to do work where I have something to say.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.