Quotes About Expression

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

People come up to me with tattoos of my lyrics!

I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I'll probably do my kids initials.

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

I wish I had a lot of tattoos.

A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.

I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.

I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don't know. It's just a mural... a collage.

When I first started in the industry back home in Australia at 18, there was a lot of push and shove as to how I should dress, if I was allowed to cut my hair short, if I had too many tattoos. If I didn't get a campaign, or if I didn't get a role, they would always come back to, 'Well, she dresses like a boy.'

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.

All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in.

Coming into the league, if I would've had money, then obviously I would've had more tattoos.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

I love showing off my tattoos.

I don't like tattoos because tattoos are forever.

In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.

I really like neck tattoos and hand tattoos. They're just not for me.

I do my own tattoos.

I look at my body as an extension of the music. My body is a canvas, and with my tattoos, I want them to be a direct reflection of my thoughts.

I have lots of tattoos and am biracial.

It's quite amazing how tattoos in general have been more and more accepted.

Most of my tattoos have a story. When people ask me, I tell them whatever they want hear. 'What's this tattoo? What does this mean? Does it hurt?' I tell them everything they want to know.