Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Self Expression Quotes
Self-Expression I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
CreativityIdentityInfluencePurposeSelf-Expression Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
ConventionalityIndividualityPotentialSelf-Expression The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
CreativityIdentityPerceptionSelf-Expression I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
GlamourHappinessLoveResilienceSelf-Expression I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
HumorIntelligenceSelf-ExpressionYouth I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
CreativityEducationHumorIndependenceSelf-Expression It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
CreativityEmotionEmpathyMental HealthSelf-Expression Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
AuthenticityDirectnessHonestySelf-Expression My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
ConfidenceIndividualityPersonal GrowthSelf-DiscoverySelf-Expression I felt like my hobbies were so different from my peers, that I came off as an extremely loud person. But then by being shy, I just felt like I hindered myself from becoming the individual that I wanted to be.
Life ExperiencesMusicReflectionSelf-Expression I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.
CreativityImaginationInnovationSelf-ExpressionTalent The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Self-Expression I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.
AuthenticityDefiance of NormsIndividual PassionInner StrengthSelf-Expression I would never win an award for not loving pizza.
HopeHumorPerseveranceSelf-ExpressionWork Ethic For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
AuthenticityIndividualismIntegritySelf-Expression I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
CommunicationMusicSelf-Expression I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
Artistic GrowthAuthenticityCreativitySelf-ExpressionSource of Inspiration Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
AutonomyIdentityIndividualitySelf-ExpressionUniqueness I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
IdentityIndividualityMotivationSelf-ExpressionUniqueness I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.