Quotes About Expression

I still don't think I'm a fashion guy. I think I'm a clothes guy. I'm a little obsessive.

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but I was always asking questions. I said, 'Isn't art supposed to be difficult?' If we can all do art, then it's not really art. It's supposed to be difficult.

On stage I have to amplify some of my emotions with my back or make something a little bit more obvious because my audience might be very far away from me, or very high up and find it harder to read what I'm trying to express.

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling stories since I was very young.

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.

I am not a person that is particularly tethered to fashion, which I think is obvious to anyone who's seen me.

I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being told to be less gay, be less feminine.

I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral. But I definitely want to be thought of as an artist first.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

I don't expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, 'I love 'Drag Race,' and then I got to hear my Chris Stapleton album.' Not necessarily an obvious crossover.

It's obvious some people don't have an emotional thing for the music.

Obviously, sometimes I just feel like looking like a box of crayons.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

Naturally, obviously, nudity is a part of life.

I obviously want a safe world for everybody if we're getting really deep, but my safe and happy place is always going to be music.