Quotes About Expression

I'd be a chef if I wasn't a musician, that's for sure.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

I don't like somebody saying to me in their performance, 'Look at this. Isn't this funny?' I pray that I don't do that. I'm sure I fall off the horse every once in a while, but I try not to.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Because I'm a nobody, surely it's an interesting thing or a nice thing to see a nobody or just a regular person do things that makes you question your taste and feel things.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.

If you're a surfer, you just want to surf. You don't know if anyone's going to see you, and you don't really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I used to go to surf camp in the summers, and I remember going to the beach and thinking my style was so different from all of the other kids.

That's pretty much all I do - skate, surf, and jam.

Even though I grew up playing folk music - and surf music, originally - I was listening to Motown and Stax on the radio as well. That music always resonated with me.

Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

Making surf films for a living isn't my business anymore, so it's really more of a way to get creative and have a lot of fun with it.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint.