Quotes About Expression

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I do end up reading lots of shorter things.

If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about.

I have mad brims.

All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

I'm mad creative for acting.

Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.

Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

Writing is a form of licensed madness.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine pieces because you become a 'figure.'

'Ebony' has been more than a magazine; it is a movement.

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

If you see a look in a magazine that you like, try it.

When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect job.

'Guitar World' is one of my favorite magazines.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.