Quotes about Expression

I have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

People like Brel were sensitive and vulnerable; on stage, they dared to take risks.

It was a slow process of getting closer and closer to my actual personality on stage. And now there's very little separation. I definitely find the more open and vulnerable I am, the more people enjoy it.

When I taught art, I was always asked, 'How do you know you're an artist? What makes you an artist?' And to me, it's like breathing. You don't question if you breathe; you have to breathe. So if you wake up in the morning, and you have to realize an idea, and there's another idea, and another, maybe you are really an artist.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.