Quotes About Expression

I think that expression is so great. So I'll look at someone like Prince, and one reason to lose weight is so I can rock that purple velvet outfit with the white frilly shirt.

Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale - he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce these bands.

If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion.

I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.

I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.

If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.

When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else.

'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

Jean-Luc didn't like me to say any bad words in real life, and I would always do it on purpose, just for fun. And he would go crazy! Then he had Brigitte Bardot do just that in 'Contempt.' And in that film she also has this line - 'I want red velvet curtains, or nothing at all in the apartment' - which was something I would always say.

When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock 'n' roll. We grew up with The Velvet Underground, the Stones and Mars bars and Marianne Faithfull and we knew we didn't want to be boring - and we weren't!

My husband is from Venezuela and he cries when he needs to cry!

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

Music was my one way to vent.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Sometimes I like to vent.

Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.

I always like to vent and tell the truth in my music.