Quotes About Expression

he marveled at that word that had come to his lips out of nothing. "Water, forefinger." The words were coming fast now, tumbling, streaming out of that noplace where the names of all things waited to be used. "I am cold, I can speak, and I am tracing this water down this window with my forefinger.

If you want to write, you must write experience. What it is to be that thing. There is everything in a moment.

All written art is an attempt to communicate what it is to feel.

There is a value in unprogrammed elements in a programmed world

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Freedom is expressing our true spirit 'love'. Independence is sustaining this freedom inspite of all inhibitions.

latest notebook – he filled dozens of

We Scots, Rebus thought, we're not very good at going public. We store up our true feelings like fuel for long winter nights of whisky and recrimination. So little of us ever reaches the surface, it's a wonder we exist at all.

Christ on a bike, Tony …

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.

I never travel without my sketch book.

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics.

B. & Rakim. Then straight after that we did the Bring the Noise tour with Public Enemy, N.W.A, and EPMD. "Colors" was always my opening song.

A lot of times I'd step out of my own zone as Scotty Appleton and tell Wesley or Chris or Judd how shit really would get said in the game. Subtle little things like gestures and looks. Things I lived firsthand, things I witnessed, I was able to add that into the performances.

I wanna shoot you so bad my dick is hard!" Long after the movie came out, I saw cats wearing that on T-shirts, like it's an actual slogan. The line wasn't in the script; it was just something I ad-libbed in the moment. It sounded cool and crazy and believable for

Cop Killer" was a protest song. It reflects how a lot of Black people were feeling in that particular historical moment. Folks in L.A. were at the point of exploding with rage at police brutality.

The shit hit the fan in '92 because that was an election year—"Cop Killer" was a ready-made target for the president, the vice president, and the NRA.

song; what pissed them off is that white people liked it. When we played it there were thousands of white kids at our shows, wilding out in pits, shouting the words with fists in the air.