Quotes About Originality

I am not afraid to experiment - sometimes going beyond what is traditionally beautiful is what makes a great picture.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

People usually call me for experimental songs.

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.

People always ask you, 'Are you like brother and sister? Are you like a married couple?' It's really original and it can't really be explained.

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

I do kind of think there's a bit of an overemphasis on - in the community - on sort of achieving ever-so-slightly better state-of-the-art results on particular problems, and a little underappreciation of completely different approaches to problems that maybe don't get state of the art because it's actually super hard and a pretty explored area.

If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

It is a way to express yourself. Fashion has to be individual and I like to express my fashion the way I style myself.

It's about being creative and drawing on who you are when you wake up, and expressing yourself through fashion.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

I truly believe that everyone can be creative; you just need to find your form of expression.

Fashion is being 'you.' It is a form of expression.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

I have always been attracted to faces that are different.

I've been writing way before 'X Factor,' and I've been doing shows before 'X Factor.' And everything I did on this show was me being me. Same way I acted in the show is the same way I act now as an artist.