Quotes About Expression

There is something I don't get about the party scene in Delhi and Gurgaon, especially in Gurgaon. Why do people dress up so much when they go out to the nightclub or disco here?

I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.

I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.

My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That's not me.

When I was younger I would often go to nightclubs and sit in the best-lit corner to look at what people chose to wear, or I'd go out and around the city - to places where people express their sense of what they think looks good. So, I get a sense of that, and then I try to interpret it.

This is what gay nightlife is: It's about building an image. You are constantly in proprioception where you're clocking your own movement through space constantly.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

What I had heard about TV is that it's very rigid - that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically - and that's my worst nightmare. I don't work well in rigid environments.

Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me.

I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

56 Nights' one of the best mixtapes ever.

My shoes are an expression of me, how I'm feeling. Some nights I might wear some crazy stuff. Some nights I might be more regular.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.