Quotes About Expression

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

My aesthetic is very black.

No one is mediating aesthetic choices on an OPN album other than myself.

I'm interested in aesthetics, language, art, fashion, everything.

The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

I speak up about things close to my heart. But I think I am a little too emotional. Events in the world affect me.

There wasn't exactly a plethora of physical affection in our family.

Music is real. It affects people; it's real.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.

It's not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can't because they're afraid. I say it for them.

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

I try not to cry in front of people that might get very emotional. I try to cry by myself. When I'm in a comfortable place, I don't hold anything inside. I just let it out, and I feel better afterwards.

For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.

As an actor, I don't have an agenda. I don't have to prove a point; I am not a bastion of a particular brand of cinema. I am doing what makes me happy.

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.