Quotes About Expression

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

I essentially write for myself.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.

I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

With each song, I'm trying to go after that feeling of elation, of euphoria. It's not the only feeling in the world; it's just the one I thought I should try to focus on and find the most effective way of getting there.

I have a very European feel about nudity.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

I want to show the Everton fans what I'm really about.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

I write every night.

I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.