Jeffree Star Quotes

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' I did it to be unpopular.

I don't have any interest in filmmakers making statements just for the sake of being provocative.

I decided to make one of the most controversial songs that I could. I want to get under people's skin.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Movies should make people uncomfortable sometimes.

When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart.

When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.

I prefer to create friction. Because if you're not pushing buttons, you're just making something pleasant; it's probably been done before, and it's not making anyone feel anything.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Art has an obligation to offend

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

Even if people hate my other movies, and hate me, or whatever, I think from this point of view, Postal is the most important movie after September 11. It's not respecting any edge, any border, any nation, any religion - it's an all-type offender. I think that only if everybody gets a little pissed about something then you will start thinking about your situation.