Kate McKinnon Quotes

Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.

I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

My love for fashion has been natural, it's been organic and I want to keep it that way.

There's an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into the mirror. But as dancers, we always check ourselves in the mirror. I do feel that when I choreograph, I am making a dance on my own body. Much of it is my own response to the music.

I truly, genuinely like clothes. Making them is an art form, and wearing them is a form of self-expression. I find it very emotional because I can remember moments in my life - my mood, how I felt - through these clothes.

Find a way to express what moves you.

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

Fashion is very much emotional. When you see it, or when you wear the right clothing, or you wear whatever, it's supposed to make you feel something. You're supposed to feel some type of emotion, and I feel like I try to do that when I'm on a red carpet.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.