Quotes About Self-expression

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.