Quotes About Expression

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

I don't think good films have messages.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

If it's good art, it's good.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.