Quotes About Expression

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.

I think people tend to cling to music when times are hard.

Clinton's a schmuck.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.

See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.

I've done a lot of shows over a long time, and I've lost my voice on plays before, and it's because I've been thinking closely about what I'm doing with my voice. Babies can scream all day and never lose their voice because they just mean it. As long as you mean it, then it carries you through. It's do it or don't.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when they're open and honest.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.

I ended up having to leave home to make the music I wanted to make, and to find myself. As cliche as that sounds; I like to think I'm getting closer.

Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.

I love writing. It is the closest thing to me after being an actor.

I was always a closet blues player.

I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.