Quotes About Expression

I'll be honest: I've never wanted to do anything other than perform.

Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

To be on screen, you need to do a lot of other things. You need to look good. You need to perform well. You need to act well.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

Some artists I know, they would rather not see the audience or envision them. But for me, I'd rather see them. I feel like part of the reason I perform is to feel that connection. It's the reason I love it so much.

I was a dancer, so I always loved watching girls perform and dance and just always looked up to them and their bodies.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

Usually I perform with dancers.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Most of the time - at the Grammys for example - a DJ will perform with just their hands in the air because they can't do anything and that makes it a little awkward, I think.

I totally understand that I am a little outrageous in some ways... I'm a little un-P.C., but I really wish I had the chance to perform for the American fans.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.