Quotes About Expression

I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

I want to see women in pantsuits or two pieces, even something a little bit gaudy. It's so much more exciting than just another nice dress.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

Don't be afraid to wear fancy dress-up pieces with your everyday denim jeans/shorts.

For me, it's always been about a mix of hip-hop, acoustic singer/songwriters, and piano rock. I pull all those together. Each song may lean more heavily on one than the other, but they all have all three pieces.

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.

I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

I've had everything pierced at some point.

I've determined my style - I like to call it elegant funk. You'll see me in some really beautiful gowns but I'll still have my septum piercing in.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.