Quotes About Expression

Normally the amount of music we have is what you hear on the album and that's it.

I think the way you dress should be fun. Wearing stuff that people don't normally wear or wouldn't particularly think is their style, I love that. I think that's fun and I think everybody should do it.

I like to drive everywhere, so I normally like to sing out loud in my car where nobody else can hear me.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.

If I'm playing for North Carolina, and Eric Montross goes up and dunks one, I might jump up and hug him like I was his girlfriend. It's supposed to be that way, in my opinion. Players should be able to express themselves and grow.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.

'Uff da,' for the unenlightened, is Norwegian for 'oy vey' and is a common expression in Minnesotese.

I would say my flow is Aboriginal. Look at my face, nose, lips, and eyes.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

I have a thing for major 7ths. They've got a very mournful, nostalgic quality to them.

But I think what makes a band great is that you're not trying to be someone else ever. At no point do you want it to become nostalgic; you never want to be a cover band for anybody.

What rock n' roll was supposed to be about was getting loose, enjoying it, going a little crazy, and not caring how you act or dress.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

It's not fair to tell an artiste what to be creative about.

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.