Will Rogers Quotes

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits the people to define themselves over and over again.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that but in the end I'm just a person. I really don't live like a rock star, economically or socially. I still live a pretty simple life beside the traveling aspect of it.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

I'm not an industry artist - I'm an artist in the industry.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.