Quotes about Expression

Every good look needs a storyline.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

Words separate you from the rest of creation, making you more like God than like animals. The gift of words calls us to live and speak in a God-focused manner. One of our greatest mistakes in communication is to take words as our own to use as we please.

Every day your words give your relationships their tone. Every day you tell people what you think of them, what you want from them, and what you would like to enjoy with them.

Words can be powerful or they can be cheap. What makes words powerful is the action that flows from them. Theology also can be powerful or cheap. What makes right thinking about God powerful is the life that emerges daily from that theology.

I use both the 'I' and the 'we.' For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church's communion.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.