Quotes About Expression

Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Laura Marling is Joni Mitchell-level for me.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

My passion for music lay dormant during my football career and now I can explore it.

I love layers!

The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It's a form of synaesthesia.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist.

I have a lot of kurtas and Rajasthani-patterned clothes. So I really wanted to do something with an Indian flavour. Shooting the video for 'Lean On' was like a dream come true for me.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

Yes, my acting was not stylised. I always underplayed, maybe because I never learnt acting.

I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.

Acting is learnt, not taught.

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.