Quotes About Expression

Our larger goal is to tell the story

My goal before I die is to get all of my thoughts out.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job

I speak two languages, Body and English.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.