I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one cannot have a proper functioning democracy.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Be life-minded and that will come through in your performances. Guessing what the 'industry' wants too much will stifle your true expression.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is...

My quest has always been to get my story to the rest of the people.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

I feel far more connected to the whole band if I can somehow physically respond... with my body.

I think the way a person dresses is an expression of their personality, and I appreciate a well-tailored suit and the work that goes into it. But when it comes to fashion, on a scale of one to ten,...

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in...

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

Music is really personal.

I mean, it wasnt like I had said to myself beforehand, 'OK, I'm gonna go out there and sing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' in the weirdest way possible and cause a commotion.' I just sang it the way I...

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social...

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.

According to me, art is honest and free.

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.

I'm an emotional person. I'm not going to deny that. If I feel a certain way, I'll express it on the track.

I'm not a rapper.

Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planned out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the...

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover...

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.