Quotes About Expression

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

When it came time to do 'One Hundred Years' I had been encouraged to really make a Styx album without the guys. I gave myself permission to do that. I set out to get people who sang with me who could make those harmonies.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else.

I want to do something original rather than interpret someone else's performance, which is always the risk - even if it's only in a subconscious way. I want to concentrate on giving my own fresh interpretation.

It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.

I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.