Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

It's fun to channel a different mood and character through makeup.

When you're a VJ, you can say whatever you want, dress whatever way you want to. You play your own character.

Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege.

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

I've been every hair color under the sun for different projects.

I have so much built up inside. To be able to put what I have in my head into real life is just an amazing thing.

I always talk about if you want to be an artist, you have to be authentic because people can tell bullshit a mile away. There is nothing wrong with creating a character, standing behind that character, and that being an authentic performance piece, because that's a piece of art as well. But if you want to be an artist in any form, you have to know to come with it.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

Everything evolves naturally in life. It's not limited to beauty or music. The more experience you get, the more you find out about yourself. Everything becomes more and more an expression of the real you. I can play different characters. Sometimes I feel tomboy or glam or playful. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.