Quotes About Expression

I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

That's the incredible thing about 'Matilda': it keeps manifesting itself in different ways.

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement - for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.

Songwriters, we're always looking for new concepts, fresh concepts, and there are only so many ways you can talk about partying, really.

I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There's something about creating life out of things that have no life.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.