Quotes About Artistry

The process of getting into Miranda mode is simply making sure I'm as gross as possible. I make sure I'm wearing funky clothes and a lot of lipstick, and I'm good to go.

I listen to a lot of music... but there still hasn't been a project yet that touches me like 'Beast Mode' has.

When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together.

I'm here to make music; I'm not here be a fashion model.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.

A show isn't just a show, a show is entertainment; it's modeling, acting, singing and dancing all ripped into one, with the little time that we have to do it.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

Modelling, for me, I find that it's like acting.

A lot of people might think the job of a model isn't necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer - how they make you feel a certain way - how watching a dancer gives you emotion, models can do the exact same thing to many different people.

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.

My biggest role models are not chefs, but women like Coco Chanel, Simone de Beauvoir, Nina Simone.

My style of drag has always been a little bit more moderate.

My favourites are Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar and Mohammed Rafi. They are the four legends. I have worked with them in hundreds of songs.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

I think cooks that are just interested in molecular gastronomy are cooks that will never be chefs.

I miss the camera each moment and each day.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.

Maybe other musicians are interested in different things, maybe they have greater monetary concerns. I hear people who have not changed, who haven't elevated anything, who are the same as they were back in the '50s and '60s.

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

I've never heard anything like 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.' The Arctic Monkeys are my favorite band, and that is my favorite album.

I love bands like the Arctic Monkeys and The Smiths, and I'm working on my own music.

I love the Arctic Monkeys!

I remember finishing a monologue, looking up, and seeing people really moved and then being like, 'Oh, my imagination just took me somewhere completely different.' That was the moment I knew that this is what I wanted to do.