#Expression

"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."

"It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it."

"Music is an outburst of the soul."

"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."

"Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to."

"Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression."

"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."

"The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself."

"If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way."

"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"

"A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them."

"Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art."

"The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls."

"Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of."

"Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope."

"My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls."

"when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth."