Quotes About Expression

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

I do speak my mind a lot more than when I was younger. I guess that's just my Polynesian background. That's how we are: just sit back and try and fit in, try and make everyone else happy.

If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

When you make a young player feel young, it doesn't necessarily help them - they often want to be treated like everyone else. If you respect their talent, then that can give them the confidence to express themselves.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.

My music is not Christian - Lecrae is. And you hear evidence of my faith in my music.

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

I want my music to evolve to become more me.

I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

There's so much PC police. There's so much, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' We're the exact opposite.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation if you're telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.