MNEK Quotes

I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers are f - king weirdos. We don't have gender rules that tell us what we can and can't be. We just make it up as we go along. We have full creative license to be whatever we want to be.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Hopefully, even if I am judged or there's confusion, anger, about how I identify, I hope that people can understand that family is fluid.

I didn't want it to feel like I was shoving my sexuality down people's throats.

I held in being sexually attracted to women for so long that once I got that out of me, the music became easy.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn't strike me as, "Oh, I'm breaking boundaries and stuff..."

I'm not very much an open book, I do really express myself only through my music and when I'm in that safe environment and I don't have to let anything go out of the studios that I don't want to go out.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.

I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.

I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.

Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

All people deserve to be treated with dignity and have their human rights respected, no matter who they are or whom they love.

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.