Quotes About Expression

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.

A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous.

If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.

I almost failed one drama course. All the actors talked in phony accents. It shocked me. I went out for track instead.

I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want to lead with that. I didn't want people to look at me like that's all I am.

I was playing bass when I was a kid; I play bass now. I used to draw pictures when I was a kid, and I draw pictures now. I talked backwards and weird when I was a kid, and I talk backwards now.

We were always just a hardcore band that came out and said what we believed in, but we also talked about the streets and the stuff that we were into and the struggles and everything we were going through. Once people found out we were Christian, it was always, 'Is that Christian music?'

We've always been huge fans of the Dixie Chicks. They talked about subject matter that people didn't necessarily want to talk about and made people pay attention to issues.

I was always the pop guy that was a little too country. I talked a little too country; I brought the country artists in.

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

Personally I've always given people make-up advice and talked about beauty products because that's what I'm passionate about.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

I'm a big people watcher and a people talker. The beautiful thing about being an artist and a creative person is that you can get an idea from anywhere, and I'm always on the hunt for them.

I'm not much of a talker. When I do talk, it takes a lot for it to come out.

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.