Quotes About Originality

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

I think my differences were, and my differences still are, that I don't really approach fashion in a fashiony way.

Own your differences and don't always try to fit in. The more unique you are, the more you stand out.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

I always prided myself in being different.

What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different ideas, and some of them may seem crazy.

I've always felt like a different kind of ballerina.

Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.

I'm different, that's all. Everyone is different in their own ways - but I'm maybe a little bit more different in a little bit more different kind of way.

I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of quality.

There's so many different kinds of songs that could be pop songs. I don't think pop songs should sound the same.

You don't have to be the sexiest girl or the most talented person to have the X factor. X factor is something you are born with that is your own. And the moment that you realize how to tap into that quality that you have within, and how to bring that individuality out of yourself, that is when you discover the X factor.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

My target is to score more goals, not necessarily be the next Steven Gerrard. Obviously, my respect for him is very high, but I want to go my own way. I want to be Emre Can, not copy other players.

I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.

To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

It's a challenging task for every artist to come up with new ideas. Your last video would have made a benchmark, so the next one should ideally be better than your previous work, so there's always a competition with myself to be better.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

Someone like Allan Holdsworth sometimes plays the wackiest things, but does it with panache, such taste.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.