Quotes About Expression

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

Film is a strange thing.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

Acting is a very strange thing. It isn't about trying to feel, for me, it is about thinking.

I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both. They're just different modes of expression.

You are in a strange world in pantomime, where you are allowed to step out and talk to the audience and do silly gags. Sometimes I feel like a cartoon character.

Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.