Quotes About Voice

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

I can express myself.

I choose to express myself.

My job is to express myself.

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

I just think people should be able to express themselves.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. You just can't stop being an artist.

I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say.

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

Giving the voice and expressions to a character is giving it a soul.

Completing your performance with your own voice is so important. It's not only my face and expressions... the voice added to it always feels good.

I did a lot of screaming in 'The Originals,' and I hurt my voice so badly that I said, 'I can't scream if you want me to be able to work for, like, the next three days.' So, what I usually do is that I scream once in the season, and we'll just use that scream, all throughout, or extend it, or do whatever we need to do.

When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

I've been told that my voice is very distinctive. I've been told people feel extremely connected to it.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.

When you go into the studio, you have to know what you're going in there for. I went into the studio because I had a voice and I wanted to change things, and I don't necessarily mean my bank account. The money is almost a B factor, a side product.

I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.

I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.