Quotes About Expression

Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.

Music can feel empowering, or it can give a natural emotional voice to something people can't express. This is why it's beautiful.

We need more pop songs and more empowering songs.

I've written a lot of songs from watching women speak about women empowerment.

8chan is an empty piece of paper for writing on.

I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

I'm enamored with the art world.

When I wrote 'Dopamine,' I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.

My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.

I just want to say what I think and encourage others to say what they think.

Other people might buy a Rolls-Royce. I'd rather encourage people to be creative.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

I believe in the need for paying for art. Free shows must not be encouraged.

As a society, we need to create an environment that encourages women to make the choices that are available to them and encourages them to speak their mind.

My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.

My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.

I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.