Quotes About Expression

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

Basketball is the axis that allows me to do the things that I do. I have so much love for the game, and it gives me to the option to be able to jump into fashion.

There is power in music, certainly when an audience starts to show up and you have the option to send good messages.

A girl can never have too many lipstick options!

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

I didn't know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy.

Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they're options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people - not labels, not semantics.

It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.

I like having a big band because it gives you more options. They can always not play and I can do the quiet stuff, but when we want to do the big arrangements, we can.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

When I think about a book like 'A Clockwork Orange,' which I really loved, the weird hybrid language is what I remember most.

I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that.

When I want to feel especially grateful, I think about the early days dressing up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.

I always think of the 'Schizophrenia' album as being like the cover of the Scorpions' 'Blackout.' It's got this guy breaking out of the glass, but he's got a straightjacket on. I think it's a bit of 'Blackout' mixed with a little bit of 'A Clockwork Orange.'

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.