Quotes About Originality

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Nobody has a copyright on 'Emotional Atyachar,' other than Anurag Kashyap maybe!

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.

At our core, we are a content company. That content has to be the very best. You can't be a company of this size and be doing what everybody else is doing.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

Count on me to shine where it doesn't count.

A friend of mine kind of revealed to me that idea that there has been countless Supermen and Batman. But I'm the first person to play Black Lightning. It's exciting to originate a character.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover songs they wish they could have written, not me. I like to cover songs I know I could not have ever written.

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your original sound is like or what your writing voice is like.

I don't even listen to peoples' music... I'm really in-tune with my craft, I listen to me all day long.

People can see through crap pretty easily. Just go out there and be comfortable. Be you. Be authentic.

This radio business I'm in is full of guys who read the sports page and rip crap off.