Quotes About Expression

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.

Honestly, 'Side A' is supposed to be a project just from my heart and whatever is happening in my heart at the time, and I want 'Side B' to also fit that same thing.

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away from sampling so much and start making the kind of music that people wanted to sample.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

I wish I sang better.

I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.

I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.