Self Expression Quotes

I try to tell all the - not even the kids, even people older than me - to just be themselves. Don't wear what I wear 'cause I wear it; wear what you like.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.

Everything that happens to me gets put into a song. For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. There, I don't hold back: names, dates, times, expressions on people's faces, exactly where we were and how it felt, what I wish I would have said to them in the moment. So I'm not only excited about sharing the songs with fans; I'm also pretty interested to hear the response from the guys I've written about on the record.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

Let yourself become living poetry.

Just let me be me, That's the only way I know.

Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my music. I want them to say, "This is somebody who's recognizing his true feelings, his true emotions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, and views on the world, all on one record." I want people to recognize that and to take it and apply it to their own lives. You know what I'm saying? The more and more I get out and talk to different people, I realize they appreciate that - me being unapologetic in whatever views and approach I have.

Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let's dance!

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.

When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too.

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

Language always gives you away.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do. I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.

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.

I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.

I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.