Quotes About Expression

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial.

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.

It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

A man is as alive as he can communicate.

Every year, I spend time to improve how I communicate.

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student can communicate.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

Me and my dad, all we talk about is football. I do realize, for whatever our issues are and whatever repressions there may be, talking about football is how we communicate. He'll call me up and say 'This is what happened at the football.' But what he's also saying is 'I love you.'

All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.