Quotes About Expression

I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

If you're just making people laugh, that can be one-dimensional. You have to bring something artistic into it, so it's working on another plane or is more complex.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.

One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

Roja,' 'Bombay' and 'Dil Se' weren't planned as political films. It was a phase India was going through and these things affected me and found their way into my work.

People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

When we make a record, we don't discuss how we are planning on doing it. It's a very natural and organic growth.

I'm journalling, checking in with myself. I write about the week and how it felt, my hopes and plans. I do it every evening, and have done since I was 13.