Quotes about Expression

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.

Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it.

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

I loved the seventies.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.

My music is very diversified. I'll have a rock song then I'll do a ballad.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.