Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

You have to write about what's inside you. If I have to get something out, I'll do it.

You can't stop an artist from expressing his views through art.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

The voice of universe can be silenced but the voice of writers cannot be.

I feel you should be able to write about whatever you want.

I've never stopped making new music, and whether the audience wants to hear it or not, I'm going to play it. Because I'm an artist, and I create, and I've got new stuff.

Make the videos that you want to watch. Don't think about who is going to be upset or offended.

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

We want to be presentable and respectable, but feel like we can talk freely about what we want to sing about - we don't need to cuss to have that bad-boy attitude, I guess.

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's fine. You don't have to.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.

I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?