Quotes About Expression

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion differently.

I find that 'Taare Zameen Par' is one of the most beautiful movies ever made about the inner world of a child.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

You really do have the license during fashion week to wear the things that you wouldn't necessarily wear to dinner, because it really is a fashion parade.

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

First CD I bought for myself was 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.