Quotes About Expression

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

I find it really easy to be aggressive, I find it easy to cry.

Writing is agony. I hate it.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.

I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.

I just think the more you're in front of camera, the better: my main aim is just to tell the truth, be natural, and believe in what I'm doing, and hopefully that comes across as a rawness.

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

I really want to make the gayest, gayest album ever.

Who really needs a new album from me?

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.