Quotes About Expression

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience.

I guess I just do 'emasculated' and 'meek' very well.

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

I want to be a part of films that elate me and resonate with me.

I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they get.

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.

Some songs just resonate with you.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.

An actor's resource base must be life itself.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

I think that, for us, the thing that no one can take away from you is that if you make something that they've never heard before, they're gonna respond to that. They may not love it, it may not be their favourite thing, but no one can take different from you.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.