Quotes About Expression

The only thing about rock n' roll in my house is a couple of paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan - and they were expensive, too.

My mom is always asking why can't I make something nice? Because I'll make paintings, say, and they're just really bloody and angsty. So I wrote 'Dark Parts' because I wanted to write something nice for her.

I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

I love it when people come in my house and ask for my paintings off the wall, and I have to tell them that I did it. I love art.

The truth is that... if you put any idea out there that's kind of flashy, you have many, many people that are going to be copying it. This happens whether you do movies, paintings or music.

A role is a role where I play someone else, but when it comes to paintings, it is me. It is unadulterated Shefali and there is no control and I can let go. I am unabashedly unapologetic about it. That is what is interesting about my paintings.

My mum says I was the best kid ever; you could put me in a corner with a box of paints and I'd be happy for hours. They'd say, 'Lynne, Lynne,' and I wouldn't hear them.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

An artist is someone who paints and is creative, but they are not necessarily using their brains too much. And it's the same in modelling.

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.

Sometimes I'll have words or concepts written down before I have any type of music or anything. So when I have that, sometimes I just hear a beat and, if I feel like it'll match with the story that I have written down sonically, then I'll just pair them together.

I love to mix high street with a good pair of shoes. I don't agree with wearing head-to-toe designer - I think that's a bit Wag-gy.

I dress up like a boy and I'm most comfortable in a pair of jeans and T-shirt.

I probably have over a hundred pairs of high-heel shoes. I collect them. Over however-many years, from, like, the mid-'80s on - yes, I'm that old - I've been in drag several times in my life, and I collect a lot of stuff, and I do have a lot of high-heel shoes that I'm sure a lot of people would be jealous about.

At this point, I have 10 pairs of cat earrings because fans bring them to me. The next song I write, I'm going to be like, 'I love Chanel.'

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

I would wear pajamas to work every day if it were up to me.

Sean and I are fighting so many cliches, it's funny. But ultimately we just want to play people the songs we wrote while we were in our pajamas, in love.

It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things.