Quotes About Expression

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Movies are too literal.

Film in many ways is very literal.

I don't ever get too literal.

When I was in high school, I was so in love - as I should have been - with the performance aspect of theater and just the literal act of performing.

I literally cannot work without music.

People take songs so literally.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Each person has a literature inside them.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

I've always said that music is like literature.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.