Quotes About Expression

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience is when it comes in the middle.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

I started dressing and people used to ask, "Where do you get all that stuff?" I was going to thrift stores with my best friend Bianca Stewart.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.