Quotes About Expression

I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

I believe that music should really be without boundaries.

I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.

Music helps many to channelize energy into creating beautiful things and push boundaries.

I never had a boundary as an actor and I am open to interesting scripts.

I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters.

I'm a '70s guy at heart. I play a lot of Bowie and 10cc at home.

I just always wear bows. I always love bows, and it's always been my thing.

I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.

I want to do parts that are outside of the box.

Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.