Quotes About Originality

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

I've always been a fine artist.

I think there's a really fine line between innovating and being gimmicky, and we're trying to stay on the proper side of that.

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.

A lot of artists are aspiring to fill an archetype as opposed to being themselves. Even if they can't quite put their finger on it, fans can tell.

It's always hard to put your finger on what it is that makes Primus Primus.

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

I think fashion shows are a full stop. You need a point where there's no return, and fashion shows create a 'That's it; that's the finishing line.'

I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That's what sets your mind on fire.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it's kind of like a fakeness about it.

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.

One of the first things I want do when I start writing music for a film is to create its own sound world, its own music world.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I just don't fit into the box.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.