Self Expression Quotes

How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

When I look at comedy, it's all self-expression. I apply that same method to my music. I came up listening to N.W.A and Snoop. Like them, it's in me to express how I feel. You might like it or you might not, but I take that stand.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you

Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

Dance like nobody's looking.

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.Otherwise, you are dead.

What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had on my chest out. I don't care if people believe them, listen to them, change their ways, or think, or any of that kind of crap. I'm interested in showing off. I'm the same kid from sixth grade who stood up and said "watch this."

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.