Quotes About Expression

I look stern because I've got high cheekbones and a pointy nose, and a lot of my characters have been quite stubborn.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.

My mom never let me dye my hair, and I would beg her every single day. When I was 16, I told her I wanted to dye it purple, and she let me - probably because she never thought I'd actually do it. Then I just stuck with it.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

With me having this raspy voice, people always asked when I was going to sing on a song. When I was going at it with 50, people were saying I don't sing on my own hooks. That always stuck in my head and people always told me I had to use my own voice not just to rap.

I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid.

Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I'm pretty good at helping them get there.

I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.

If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

Some days writing flows like a stream and there are times I get stuck.

The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.

You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

Sometimes I don't even know what to name a song when I get done with it, and I'll let somebody else tell me what I should call it because it's whatever stuck in their head.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.