Quotes About Uniqueness

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.

I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

I believe everyone is imperfect in their way.

I find beauty in imperfection.

I like imperfection.

Imperfection is fine.

There's beauty in imperfection.

I don't mind a few imperfections.

Man, I think mistakes - that's what makes us distinct human beings. Those imperfections.

Imperfections make a character.

Lots of guys have tried to impersonate John Madden and it just doesn't work.

I don't shy away from things that may be a little different, but own them and implement them in the coverage that I do.

Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

I don't do impressions.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

I think, in the end, we are all our own individual person.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact song, an arrangement, a sound - and I fail. And so you can't even tell I was trying to do that thing. It makes sense in my own head but I'm incapable of copying.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.