Expression Quotes

"You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em but you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em" "When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time" "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "Art is the great democrat calling forth creative genius from every sector of society disregarding race or religion or wealth or color" "Here are some additional quotes:" "You don't need words to express how you feel" "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "Your job is to tell your story." "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" "As it has been said Love and a cough cannot be concealed Even a small cough Even a small love" "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." "I believe that to create good work, you need strong emotion. You need to feel something deeply." "To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." "Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom." "Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light"