Quotes About Originality

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.

You sometimes get the sense that when people make sequels, they get conservative. If something worked, they do it over and over and over again.

I hate sequels.

Sequels are hard. What people want is to see the first film again for the first time and that simply isn't possible.

All I can do is be myself, do what I do and if people find inspiration then that's great but it's not what I'm setting out to do.

I'm just me. Just Kyle from Sheffield. That's all I see myself as.

The Shield was my idea.

My goal isn't to shock.

We're not trying to shock people with our image.

It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done.

I like to create a shock moment. I take what not everybody wants and really get people to believe that's me.

I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.

What you don't think when you sit down to write a show is, 'How can I be shocking?' That question isn't interesting, it's all about, 'Is this funny, does it work?'

I'm not trying to rub shoulders with any record executives. If rubbing shoulders in the industry is what I wanted to do then I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.

It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.

The TLC sound! That's what's so awesome - we have our own sound.

I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.