Quotes About Expression

I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.

My show on MTV, as outrageous as it was, it was also making a point, which was, 'Look at what we're doing here. This is something that you don't see on television every day, because you're not allowed to do this on television.'

We've never been outrageous on stage.

I really love when music artists like Lady Gaga or Michael Jackson wear outrageous things. Obviously, if I wore something like that I'd look like an idiot, but I really respect fashion.

It's so nice to be able to get up on stage and just say the most disgusting, ridiculous, outrageous, offensive thing, knowing it's just between you and the audience.

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

I think it's all about how you feel - if you feel sexy inside, then it will show on the outside.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I'm still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don't even know if I'm making hip hop anymore.