Quotes About Expression

If we all dress alike, we might as well all work in cubicles.

The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

I don't really listen to a lot of stuff that sounds real similar to me because I work on that kind of music all day. I end up listening to more jazz, stuff that I can't really play.

I used to dance all day, every day.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

What I do is a little bigger than traditional country. I've been belting all my life, so I fit right in with the musical-theater style.

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.

I've loved music all my life.

Though I have been a sportsperson all my life, movies have always been an essential part of my life.

There's nothing you can't tell to an audience, because they're all people who've had lives. The only thing they don't want to watch is someone who's really angry or out of control.'

There's a lot of artists out there who are pretty big but don't write their songs, they just have a lifestyle brand. These are all things that I think are a great enemy to music.

NWA was all-American; Wu-Tang was all-American. It was just a part of America you may not have seen at the time.

I don't like allegory.

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.

It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express.

You know what, Nickelback's alright.

I'm a writer and director, and I like to do that, but for some reason, it's become part of the industry and part of the job to go, 'Alright, let's talk about it!'

In an alternative life, I would have loved to work in film - I love film.