Quotes About Originality

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.

Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

It's really hard to name a band.

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

With 'Barely Famous', we've tapped into and created something really exciting that we'll always be proud of going forward.

I usually look for stories with barriers to entry, something complex enough that no one else is going to do it.

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song.

No one can act like Bachchan saab or bat like Virender Sehwag.

The only way to write Batman, if you get the chance - and I hope everyone out there gets the chance - is to imagine you made him up.

I really want to be different.

Be less afraid to be different.

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.

I think it's good to do your own thing and want to be different, and not look like everyone else.

There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.