Quotes About Expression

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

The Internet is a politically contested space.

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

I have been a politically conscious citizen. I've been an artist, a reader, and have been chiselled by that.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

I think we go overboard with a lot of those politically correct no-no's.

I'm completely allergic to being politically correct.

No, I'm not politically correct. I never wanted to be, and I never will be.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

Everything is politically correct nowadays.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.