Quotes About Expression

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

I didn't do a lot of fighting as a kid. But I hit doors a lot.

Anyone can play Doors songs, unless it's for an ad for some product.

I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

I like making dope music.

You can't please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you're gonna have your fans.

Washington D.C. and the entire DMV area are very dope places because they're such musically-inclined areas.

For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song, but it's all coming from one artist.

Kali Uchis is a dope person. Her voice, her style - she's so unique.

Out of all of the things I've written, 'Dot' was the quickest from first thoughts to full production.

I've always wanted to do a double role.

If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.

I really love Grimes, Niki & the Dove, stuff like that.

I would happy for someone to download my music.

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang out in downtown culture.

I used to go and hang out at Patricia Field's store when it was on 8th street before it moved downtown. Amanda Lepore would be there, and I would be obsessed with the shoes and the make-up - everything. I just knew it was a creative place that I wanted to be around.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft.

I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably.

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

Drag has always made me feel less scared.