Tim Minchin Quotes

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

Gnarls Barkley is an alter ego and something like an out of body experience.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

I have these habits. I'm not a crazy artist. Or am I?

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.

I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.