Quotes About Originality

I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.

I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

You'd walk by MTV an hour ago, and you come back, and it seemed like the same song was playing. I want to stay as far away from that as I can in my band.

So somehow we've got to get back to making stuff for people that are not necessarily interested in seeing the common Broadway fare.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

I can't stand the need to be fashionable.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I'm against fashionable thinking.

I'm not fashionable.

Dream Theater has never been a band that hit at a particular fashionable point and said, 'OK, that's basically it.'

I've never been fashionable, so I'll never be out of fashion.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

I am not in favor of making remakes.

'Authentic' is one of my least favourite words because in such a diverse country, whose authenticity are you talking about?

My favourite designer was Alexander McQueen. His lines were different every time.

I have a fear of being boring.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

People are fed up with mass production.

I'm not trying to feed off of a concept that another artist had - that's not what I do.