Quotes About Expression

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don't invite either into your mind.

I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

I can't walk in high heels, never mind dance in them.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

Emotion is energy in motion.

Feel is a lot more important than accuracy.

I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.