Quotes About Expression

If there are things that are off limits, why would you do standup?

I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I love Stanley Clark. I love George Duke and Stanley Clark.

I adore Stanley Kubrick, all of his films were different, not just in subject but tonally.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

I'm not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I'm a rock star.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

Every actor I know pretty much wants to be a rock n' roll star, and we'd all give it up to be in a rock n' roll band, but we're never going to do that. But being in cartoons - that's as close as you get without being an action figure.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

Growing up I really loved Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, Fiona Apple, Everything But The Girl. I listened to a lot of really random things too that I would find by myself. I would find Minnie Riperton albums that I would fall in love with, also, a lot of old country records.

When you come from a star family in the South, you're expected to be really good in dance and fights. It's really important that you open up as an actor in front of the camera.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

'Bright Star' has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift of anything.

I'm not a rock star; I'm a soft person.

I would've been a really big silent movie star.

It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.

Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.