Quotes About Expression

I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.

Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.

When you trust your subconscious enough to put something in a story and then figure out why it really needed to be there later, when that works out, aye, that's the stuff.

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about one thing and months later you're playing it and thinking, hang on, this is completely informing where I am now.

Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.

I would only create clothes myself if I felt I could do something really different - create a new style subculture for my generation - and that is very ambitious.

My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.

I was always a laid-back, subdued person, and I just try to let that speak through my music.

I am not totally subdued, I do scream and shout.

For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.