Quotes About Expression

I love all aspects of performance.

The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.

I would hope to make a record that interacts with culture in a macro sense. That is something to aspire to.

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

Most everything I've ever written has .been done to 'assignment.'

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

I don't have assistants and things in the studio.

We don't sing about eating local produce or growing beards or anything like that. It's funny to find yourself in a position where people associate you with things that are completely arbitrary to your songs.

Grime don't mean nothing, we never called it grime. It's just a word someone associated with us. I wouldn't say all my music's grimy.

I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

I never assume anyone will see or like things I do, honestly!

People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason.

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things. I don't see the need for that, but if people want to do it, why shouldn't they?

Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

Before I was acting, I was extremely athletic and for a lot of time in my life, I didn't know how to deal with the energy that I had to move and use my body in ways.

When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

It was a very creative atmosphere in my family, for sure.

There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'

I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming. Thanks for finding me. We'll share each other now.'

We can attach music to every emotion.