Quotes About Self-expression

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.