Quotes About Expression

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

There's no need to dress like everyone else. It's much more fun to create your own look.

Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

Who has ownership over stories these days?

When you find new genres of music, you take ownership of them.

It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.

Creativity's about ownership.

There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.

I love the concept of albums, and I love owning albums.

The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.

I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really hard to go halfway. Like with modeling, for example, I kind of give up all creative control, and that's just that. But when it comes to my own personal art, I'm very O.C.D. I see something a very certain way.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

I'm still dancing - my mum owns a dance company - but I felt like there was more freedom in the music industry. You can take your vision and really bring it to life no matter what, because it's just you.

Nobody owns me or my music.

I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.

I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women's expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.

Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

Films are like oxygen for me.

I like to pace onstage.

I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.