Quotes About Expression

If you look at pop stars through the ages, we've had camp, glam popstars from the 80s - your George Michaels and what have you - but then people went back to the closet a bit, and became more homogenised and generic.

I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

I always felt in my band and in the pop-rock format that I wasn't weird enough, that I wasn't standing out enough. Wearing things to get people's attention - I didn't want to do any of that. I didn't want to compromise myself.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.

You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.

I love people who go out and say, 'If cinema is God, then I'm the pope.' As an actor working with these kinds of people, the older you get, the more you appreciate it.

Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your time looking for your own style.' I wish I could remember who told me that, because I'd like to congraulate him. I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.

In future, if I get a chance to perform, I will go for hip hop, locking and popping. Indian is definitely not for me.

When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density.

I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.

I entered music at a poppy level.

Poppy doesn't really like interviews.

I took two years out to find what sound I felt passionate about and what I liked making. After the last album, 'Peroxide', which is quite poppy and acoustic, I felt really bored.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

Whether I'm going out for the night, or during the day, I love putting on something that pops and makes you feel comfortable.

The voice is probably supposed to have some cracks and pops and some mistakes in it.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.