Quotes About Expression

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.

Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations.

Most people think I do street art, so I do everything for nothing. I'm an urchin who paints walls and does work for nothing. That's the first misconception about street artists, that we just paint for nothing.

He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

When I was a kid I painted the walls in my room like 30 times!

In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

There's a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I'm playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there's crowd-surfing. Most of the time there's a mosh pit.

There's nothing like rehearsing a waltz to a Stormzy track. It's hard to compare it to anything!

Attack your lashes with the wand. I think there's nothing wrong with doing that.

Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to it. And I know it's not a wand because plenty of fans love to turn on us as soon as they realize we are actual black people, with black concerns in our black lives.

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I had 20,000 followers and I treasured that. People'd say, 'Oh that's nothing.' I said, 'What are you crazy? That's 20,000 people that wanna hear what I gotta say!'

I often mention Alice Cooper. I don't wanna sound like Alice Cooper or be confused with him at all, and I certainly don't think we are.

I feel like so much of what we give on stage is a musical gift to our fans, but we also wanna bring more depth to our shows if we can and do something empowering.