Quotes About Expression

If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

I love computers. I think it's a miracle that you can type 'coffee stain' into a search engine and get a page of answers, but I don't like the viciousness of the Internet. It gives public voice to quite mad people.

Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

I'll come down the stairs, and my parents and sister will be like, 'What are you wearing?'

I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.

I'm not a shouter, but I like to put my stamp on things.

I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.

I think, sometimes, when you get a part, you're almost cooked. You're ready to go, and you know that you can start spinning plates and put your stamp on things.

Music has lost the stamp of originality.

I feel like when you make an album, it really has to hold its ground. It has to make a stamp.