Quotes About Expression

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

If a straight man dresses well, chances are he's not straight.

Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.

As a straight man, I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.

To a straight man, the notion of walking around as a coiffed, waxed, nail-polish-wearing, lispy dude is uproariously absurd. As people, we find absurdities funny. That's our first step in making sense of them.

I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.

You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

There have been amazing performances by straight people playing gay and by gay people playing straight.

There's straight people, and there's super gay people, and then there's everybody in between, and everybody is a little bit of something because sexuality is fluid.

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

I think we're realizing that gay people are able to do the type of comedy that we just assumed was for straight people over the years. Whatever old boundaries there were, which were very real and still have an effect on us, in the way we socialize, I think that's slowly becoming less important.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Where I'm at in my relationship with my wife or my family and life in general, I feel like it all comes out in the music. Hopefully, it's always there, but in an ambiguous and abstract way and not real straightforward.

What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.

I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn't open up people's minds.

I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell them my thoughts. Language is never a problem.

Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.