Fearless Expression Quotes

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

I sort of attract people who are interested in my comedy for being able to talk about whatever I want to talk about and not being ashamed of who I am and not hiding it.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The only way I'm comfortable with a new album is if I'm taking a new risk.

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart

While I love dancing and I am trained in certain forms, I can tell you that I dance better with my daughter because we dance like there is no one watching us.

I think there's no question that there's a reason why small children make great art and why slightly bigger children don't. And it's because small children don't worry about what anybody else thinks and slightly bigger children start to worry about these things.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Now when I step onstage, I have this hour when I can just be completely myself, just a massive ball of energy. Sometimes I get so lost in the performance, people look a little frightened - but that's a good thing.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

Here's the most mysterious thing to me. I look back at those first plays I did and the first movies I did, and I only have one question, which is, 'What was I so confident about? Where did I get that?

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth.