Quotes About Expression

You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed on my end. How could I explain that I hated photos of myself?

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Art is the illusion of spontaneity.

A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand.

Taped to her wall, where someone else might hang a crucifix, is a page torn from Rolling Stone: Prince in a misty lavender paradise.

She switches moods in a heartbeat not because she's out of control - she just doesn't care what it looks like to switch. She watches other people stay in moods just to seem committed to something.

Sananvapaus on kalanvapautta: meri olla ja uida ja väistää.

Mies on lihaksi tullut vitutus.

Kritiikin terve verenkierto: kurkut poikki.

Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world's most perfect haiku.

I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

Every night I cuddle with a blob of unbaked clay I fashioned in the shape of a woman. But that's what being in love is all about.

The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

I wanted to tell her I love you" back, but I guess in waiting for the perfect moment (the next commercial break), I ended up completely forgetting.

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

When I was hungry I fed almost daily on the words of her songs.