Quotes About Expression

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

I'm not answering questions with my songs.

If you asked me to make a Gaslight Anthem album on my own, I would say, 'No way, that's crazy.' I would never have been able to do that.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.

There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I hate the idea that people should listen to what actors have to say on certain issues more than anyone else. Actors have no more right to be heard than anyone.

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

I am not trying to speak for anyone else, never mind an entire generation. I don't even know what that means.

There is one thing in this world that I'm better that than anyone else and that is being me.

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.