Quotes About Expression

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am.

Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I'm not gonna go around playing 'You Enjoy Myself' for the rest of my life.

Everyone's computer, mobile phone or music-listening device should have a folder in my name with 100 songs.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then it would matter to know how I felt about what I was playing. You can't fake it in that situation. But I'm just counting them down as they appear on the chart, 1 through 40. What really matters is what I say between the songs.

For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.

I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?

Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it.

I love doing photoshoots; it let's me really show off my personality, flair, and makeup within a photo.

A photo is a creation.

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how to look. Then the flash kind of makes me go boss-eyed sometimes.