Quotes About Expression

People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.

I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.

Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like, once you start painting, you don't want to leave your brush and colours.

I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general sense of lights coming through.

We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

Sometimes I can write very angry columns, but I know that it doesn't work.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of everything I'm inspired by.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

On screen I am the same as I am in real life. I have done almost everything, be it acting, dancing or anchoring. I am a good combination - I can talk well, have a good face and a body and can also dance.

If I had to start over, I'll do the same thing: street clothes are the future; the client can choose two or three things and combine them as she wants.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

I want to develop a small make-up line myself. I want to combine all the things that I love and just create them the way I want them to be.

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity - they form part of the linguistic color of a period.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

I have never bought into this view that some people have that the job of the comedian is to espouse opinions and change the world - I think the job of a comedian is to be funny.

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.