Quotes About Expression

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I never do any song with any expectation.

I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.

If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.

I'm in the lane where I can make music but also have it be funny and still good at the same time.

When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another.

What I try to do is find a language for life.

English is not my first language.

My first language is Gaelic.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

English is not my language.

We can only see as much and we can only go as far as our languages take us.

I will try to dub for myself in as many languages as possible.

I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is.

I had to know at least two languages.

I would like to speak 10 languages.