Quotes About Expression

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

'Drag Race' is the escape that everybody needs - gay, straight, or otherwise.

When you come home and dad's making music, sister's making music and my mum is also very musical - you can't escape it.

I started doing comedy because it was an escape for me.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Writing is my escapism.

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to be so esoteric.

The things I want to make into a film, they're personal, esoteric things, and I don't expect anyone else to like them as much as I do. I generally like my films more than anybody else will.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

When lines are great, they're easy to do. You just find the essence of it, and you do it.

Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything possible.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

I feel electronica is spoiling the essence of music.

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.