Quotes About Expression

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

I started filmmaking when I started surfing, so the two things have been with me since I was 12 years old, so it's sort of been in my bones to make surf movies. I guess every now and then I just crave to do it again.

Surfing and music have always been two separate sides of my life. I'm quite a fun-loving person most of the time, but I feel like I always get the serious side out when I'm playing music, and then I have fun the rest of the time when I get in the sea.

I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

It's not brain surgery. I focus on getting the costumes right, getting the body language. I do what I can with the makeup.

I love playing music and I'm serious about It. But It's not brain surgery.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

Making records is not brain surgery.

If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespeare, it's still entertainment. We're just entertaining people. We're just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.

Being trans means different things to different people. Some people don't take hormones, some people don't have surgery, some people are just happy living in the clothes of their chosen gender.

Being naive I think is how you construct new music. When you start thinking too much what is it you're doing? You're just making an album. You're not doing brain surgery. If you take it too seriously you start taking yourself too seriously.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in what I do, I don't think about it. I don't try to do something - I just do it. And the more I do it that way, the more I surprise myself. And if I surprise myself, that's the best thing.

I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale back and re-focus on making moments again.

With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.