Quotes About Expression

But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into only so many words, because in a song you really only have three, four minutes to have a complete world in this song, so I think it definitely taught me to be concise.

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.

Film is very condensed.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

The first condition for comedy is that if you laugh at your own jokes, others won't laugh. You have to say something funny very seriously.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

Well, let me just say that I condone violence in all of its forms.

That's what I do: I'm a singer. I have many arrangers, but I usually conduct for myself.

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.

All art is a confession.

Acting is a form of confession.

When I'm dressed up, I feel confident - no one can't tell me anything.

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

I can be myself everywhere and be happy and confident and not feel that I am just what I do.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

I hate being confined to a particular image.

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

Our experience making 'Pieces,' all it did was confirm our passion for film making to ourselves. We were having the time of our lives, and we were in love with what we were doing.