Frank Black Quotes

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing.

I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows me personally would say that I'm particularly shy or introverted, but I'm definitely not like Mr. Attention.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

My idea was you can't dress for the stage, you have to dress all the time like you're onstage. And so I would just always wear suits or some form of it. I wanted people to know I played music. That was kind of how you would find other people: you would just walk around looking a certain way and end up meeting someone who liked the way you look.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.