Quotes About Expression

Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.

Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.

One of my favorite album covers is Miguel's 'Wildheart.'

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.

I love doing covers.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.