Quotes About Expression

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.

The coaches are there to bounce ideas off and stuff, but at the end of the day, they let us be us. We make our match, and we do 'us', you know what I mean?

I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.

Could Yosef be considered a Man Repeller even though he's a man? I'd love to get my hands on that techni-colored dream coat! Feels very Matthew Williamson to me.

I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

I love Coldplay.

Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from my version.

Copiers do not collaborate.

I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.

Before I collaborate, it's important that I have a conversation about what I care about before we make anything, so that it's very clear.

After making 'Secretary,' it was a real shock to me to learn that some directors just aren't interested in what actors have to say. They just don't want to collaborate.

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.