Quotes About Expression

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.

I would love to do a duet with Gavin Degraw. Or Ed Sheeran.

Eddie Vedder? My God, there's a singer.

I never want people to say, 'Oh, another Eddie Rabbitt record.' Each has to have a little different approach than the others.

I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

I like wearing things that other people wouldn't want to wear, to be a bit edgy.

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound of it.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being an editor than a writer, and I longed to write again.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.