Quotes About Expression

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.

Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in your own home.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

There is a lot of musical pollution in the film industry.

With 'Pink Polo,' I wanted something I could listen to when I was doing different activities during the summer and also bring a message in it.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

They're not poodles, they're art.