Quotes About Expression

There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you wouldn't necessarily have the confidence to go on your own.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

I lack confidence as an actor.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

Sometimes all it takes is one person to speak their truth. Speak yours.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Bring Down The WallsI will bring down the wallsthat surround me today.I will no longer be kept quietMeek enough to drown today....

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.

I do not care what I labeled, as long as I am heard.

Voice your opinion and let the confidence in you stand still

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble about it?

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.

What I do is so important to me. It's like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.