Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let’s just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could’ve had my own episode of ‘American Gangster.’
When you fall in love, you don’t have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it’s an outlet for you to write.
My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.
I think, one day, I might actually try writing a bunch of – a collection of essays maybe on the funnier side of the spectrum. I don’t know. But it’s fun to have, frankly, Twitter as kind of an outlet. When you’re writing about dark things all day, it’s kind of fun to have fun.
Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more compartmentalized and is more impulse-driven.
I don’t like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.
Anything that exposes the arts more, that gives us an outlet to make money and also do what we enjoy doing as artists and to connect with the fans, I’m all for it.
If I don’t really have an outlet for my adrenaline it will then manifest in anxiety, and cortisol levels will rise and then you’re in a spiral.
When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.
A great benefit of having parents in the same profession is if I do have a terrible audition story, I can call them up, and we can laugh about it because they get it. That’s always been a great therapeutic outlet.
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It’s what I’m passionate about. I’ve actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.
Everybody has that outlet in life when they’re going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it’s reading books or watching movies. My outlet was going to comic books because it got me out of this world and put me into that world and let me use my imagination.
I can work my butt off and create an album that’s wonderful, but if it’s never played and never given the outlet, it won’t succeed.
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That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child – writing songs for myself and for other artists.
My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.
Music is therapy for me. It’s my outlet for every negative thing I’ve ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
I want to have fun and I want to bring something new and fresh to fan’s eyes and have it be something they enjoy, no matter where it is, no matter what capacity. To have an outlet for creativity. That’s been my goal.
I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like ‘Glee’.
When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don’t have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.
Kids don’t like what they don’t understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn’t speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.
Well, I’d had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.
The world has changed – we can all get news 24/7 from any device, any outlet… but we want to tell different stories in different ways, and add to the news.
Music – not just the lyrics, but the music itself – expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
The Village Voice gave me an outlet. They encouraged writers to publish idiosyncratic, intellectually ambitious journalism in voices that ranged from demonic to highfalutin. And they paid me well once the magazine was unionized. Getting paid is motivational.
I have to say, my family’s always been incredibly open and encouraging of any way I might want to express myself. At a very young age, they accepted that my outlet would be writing, and comedic writing, and they were pretty accepting of that.
I was being very bad because I didn’t know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.
Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.
The news now continues all night, whether it’s politicians and the president using social media, or it might be a major news outlet dropping giant stories at 9, 10 o’clock at night.
Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.
I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn’t tell too many people about it.
It makes me a better person, surfing, I think. It’s a great outlet.
Playing video games, as funny as it might sound, it’s a very important part of our day. Our schedule is so hectic, chaotic, demanding that we need an outlet. We need ways to express ourselves and let our energy out.
Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.
Drag Race’ was, like, my outlet and finally being able to see myself in television and that was through Manila Luzon, who was a ‘Drag Race’ contestant. Manila was the first Asian queer person that I ever saw on mainstream media and ‘Drag Race’ really did that for me.
My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.
I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists’ language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.
I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It’s important to have that creative outlet – I’m really passionate about it.
Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn’t playing, and music – and didn’t have that outlet – those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn’t have that channel to get those energies out. I’m a much healthier person when I play music.
I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.
Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
I go stay a week in these little towns that don’t have an art outlet and… go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of ‘go through the Texas country roots’ is what they call it.
You’ll see me on ‘Top Chef’ someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical theater, which sent a previously undiscovered current coursing through the body, demanding outlet.
In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don’t need to have direct communication. You can say, ‘I can’t describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.’
In my daily life, I tend to be very literal and unsuperstitious. But music gives me an outlet to be very emotional.
I believe Forbes is an important outlet for broadening environmental journalism beyond the overwhelmingly alarmist approach taken by most reporters, and look forward to contributing heterodoxical pieces on energy and the environment in the future.
‘Chicago Fire’ has been a wonderful outlet for me. We’re thrown into the gritty streets of Chicago working among actual first responders. They’re a wonderful bunch, and the sense of community among Midwesterners is very similar to Australians.
I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.
