Quotes About Expression

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that people need to see.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing!

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.

Teaching has made me realize that a lot of my fast playing is the musical equivalent of, 'Umm... umm... uhh...' - it's like when you're trying to think of the next thing to say that actually has meaning, you fill space. 'Umm' has about the same meaning as my fast playing.

I knew that 'Next Thing' was an angry album while I was making it. But I thought that it was angry the way that you get in a fight, not angry as a huge life change.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.

I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

I believe, as artists, I do think we have a responsibility, and there's also a place for a lot of different artists. It is nice when music captures the honesty of the time but also what we're going through in that moment.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

I think villainy just comes naturally to me. I get to work it out naturally so I can be a nice person in life.

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

The nice thing about working with BOOM! on 'Irredeemable' and 'Incorruptible,' man, was they let me have my head. No one said boo about anything.

The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the physical side of life is that I can have them on my shelf.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.