Quotes About Expression

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

A great artist is never poor.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

Nothing wrong with pop!

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'