One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.
I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.
Where words cease, there music begins.
It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.
I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'
I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.
A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.
My work should be seen as poetry.
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.
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the character's face really helps get the message across. On stage, you can't do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you can't get anywhere else because the audience is right there.
It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.
I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.
When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.
Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.
