Quotes About Expression

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

What Bharat Natyam has taught me is to appreciate the smaller things in life.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

I could do James Taylor, Neil Young, and sound just like them.

My James Taylor albums sat quite comfortably next to my Rush and Aerosmith collections.

Mostly i write on an unplugged Mustang or a Baby Taylor.

Every time I hear a Garth Brooks record I tend to want to hear James Taylor.

Brand-wise, I love Doc Martens, Topshop, All Saints, and Lord & Taylor.

Corey Taylor won't be mad at me saying, but I didn't think there'd be other bands. I thought we'd wear masks forever.