Adam Lambert Quotes

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands. The average man ought to be allowed a quotation of no less than three sentences, one to make his statement and two to explain what he meant. Ralph Waldo Emerson was about the only one who could stand having his utterances broken up into sentence quotations, and every once in a while even he doesn’t sound so sensible in short snatches.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.