Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.