Quotes About Expression

I'm dying for people to let me be funny!

My voice is not very dynamic.

I think albums should be dynamic, man.

My voice has many dynamics in it. Like my little body.

With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

I wanted more of my opinions accepted by the Eagles. I wanted to sing more.

I always wrote alone with the Eagles.

I've always had a different ear for music.

If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.

I don't really care what type of beat it is. As long as it appeals to my ear, I'm gonna do a song to it.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

I was on stage from an early age. It always felt to me like something I was born to do.

I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work.

Black women have earned the right to be basic.

Not only did I cross-dress at 10, playing Rosalind in 'As You Like It,' I also found myself in a cross-dressed part at 60, when I played Lady Bracknell in 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'

I don't do earrings.

The only thing you create music with is your own creativity and your own ears. And it takes a lot of time to develop your own ears. It's really important, before you go to the studio, to realize yourself: What do I want to hear? What do I want to create?

If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.

Western music is alien to my ears.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

I like to produce something every day. The easiest way to get ideas out is to put them on paper. I like to sit back at the end of every day and think, 'I created that today.'

The easiest thing sometimes is just playing. You don't have to worry about the plays, this and that, you just play.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.