Quotes About Expression

In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to dye my hair crazy colors.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

I wanted to be Joni Mitchell.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

For me, with the Blue Man Group, I got asked. It was for the Royal Variety Show, which was something I always wanted to be a part of. I'm really interested in things people don't necessarily expect. I did a pop song, but I did it in my own style.

I've always kind of just had a big personality and a voice that I wanted heard.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

I always wanted to show different sides of me, and I'm very happy to have done so.

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.