Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.
You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.
Actually, I think that a lot of the interviews and acoustic sessions and other things that artists fill their time with are really pointless and suck the energy out of the artist.
I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
I'm a person of extremes. I'm usually very polar in a lot of things that I do.
One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
When people think fashion is just the surface of things, I disagree very politely.
For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.
'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.
A lot of evangelicals have grown accustomed to feeling used by the political process. Every politician appeals to us, every one wants to hear us out during the campaign, but then things change once they get into office.
I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.
I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.
There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.
Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.
When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.
