Angel Haze Quotes

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

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

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

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

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.

I've always been aware that probably writing songs - stupid songs or, at least, theatrical songs - is, I dunno, I certainly don't think about that, about my persona on stage. In fact, I work really hard not to address it too much in my head.

I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.

Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm the big bad wolf and I'm supposed to do this and that. There are rules, which are self imposed I must say, but there are rules. We break enough of them, but the truth is that being Gene Simmons in an album called 'Asshole' forged me the opportunity of just recreating myself. Very much Jekyll and Hyde. Mr. Hyde is the big bad guy and Dr. Jekyll has studied and both are connected.

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and communicate to you who I think the real person is and that real person is me. The most important thing is to play the human being you are creating, which is my job.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

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

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.