Quotes about Expression

Most of these producers have an agenda of what they want to push or what they think will be hot for someone. I don't have an agenda. My agenda is to take someone and bring out their dreams, what they're hearing in their head.'

Producing albums is 100 per cent where I would love to be, later in my career.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can't speak in class. So it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.

I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.

My lyrics are about same-sex relationships, because that's who I am. It was important to me that I felt comfortable expressing myself.

To a certain extent, I like fashion, but sometimes I just want to be comfortable and don't really care.

When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.