Quotes About Uniqueness

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

I asked Tyson Chandler who has to customize everything because he's 7-foot-1. He's said, always call a designer. You want to wear certain stuff but people don't make it.

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

I always dressed funny or weird, if you want to call it that. It was always part of who I am and I dressed in my freakish way a long time before we ever thought about founding Orgy.

[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to get bored.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.