Quotes About Expression

I would like to record. I would like to do some cabaret acts.

It is easier to make a film but difficult to make it on your own terms. In that sense 'Madras Cafe' was a very satisfying experience.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

Lipgloss is my calling!

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.

I'm just Jeffree. Everyone calls me he/she/whatever they want to call me; I'm an alien.

When I sing, I feel calm.

If David Goffin wants to remain calm and quiet, fine. But perhaps he would enjoy to have a little more freedom to show another side of his personality.

With Salman, I need to keep myself a little calm but that wouldn't stop me from saying what I want to.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.