Quotes About Expression

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

blue bead on the wick, there's that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

I wish to God," said Gideon with mild exasperation, "that you'd talk—just once—in prose like other people.

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

And lips say "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said "God be praised."

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

God speaks through me.

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent expressions of GOD here on this planet.

Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my god, the deadline's coming."