Quotes About Artistry

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

My vibrato was my weakness. With romantic pieces, I could be a lot more schmaltzy. My wider vibrato fit that.

I love covers because there's just something I love about replicating someone else's music or taking rare music and introducing it to a wider or a new audience.

Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it and everybody plays a long time and people really like that. But I made my living as a songwriter so I try to get to singin' and get it over with.

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.

The best thrill is standing on stage and playing - other than being married to my wife.

If a wig is funny when it's two feet tall, why not make it three feet tall? Or ten?

I'm a man in a wig who is an entertainer, I'm not a role model.

Back in the day, when a man in a wig had to 'lip sync for their life,' they relied on a wig reveal, rose petals or picking up their opponent and twirling them around.

Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can't get Tierra back until the wig comes off.

I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.

I like the fact that it's like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you're a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you're Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.

I've always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes.

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

I've made many, many, many large wigs in my career, and I've experimented with lots of materials to make them more fun and interesting and as big as possible. I like to use the lightest wig materials that I can.

I hate drag. It's extremely uncomfortable. It's awful. I'm in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.

When we first played Max's, people thought Cindy and I were drag queens - we wore these gigantic wigs that sort of his our faces.

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

I wear a lot of wigs and stuff on stage to make my hair look bigger.

The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the voice of comfort.

It really has stayed practically the same. It wasn't like I used to do wild punk make-up: no, I always had the same vision.

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.