Sasha Velour Quotes

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.

Some of the things I've done in my life, I've done to make money because I had to make money... and some things I did just because they were on my mind and they were of interest to me... some of the little plays I wrote.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.

Music, reality shows, acting, all of them are ways to express my feelings. So I will continue to try to do my best in all those categories.

I have a lot of energy, and as you get to know me, you will quickly learn that! I channel my energy into my acting, my writing, everything.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I just love being in the arts.

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

Anybody that looks at my photography, it blows my mind because it's my last hobby.