Quotes About Originality

When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.

'Gilmore Girls' was a passion of mine, to the point where Lennon actually can't watch it because if she does, then we might be fully ripping them off.

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

You can't follow another actor's performance. You can't be Robert DeNiro, because you're not Robert DeNiro, and, you know, he is.

I'm not a robot.

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.

For me, honestly, the term 'role model' means for someone to be imitated, and I don't feel like anyone is to be imitated.

I never had a role model or something.

I want to do something different in this league, even as a rookie.

I try to stay very, very true to my roots and my lifestyle and I wanted to be able to share that with my fans.

I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

I came up different; I took a different route. I want to lead my own path.

I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

I am not Russell Westbrook. I do not have the same name, same body type, stuff like that. So, I'm just going to try to be myself and be the best me and everything else will take care of itself.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

I don't want to ride on Sabbath's coattails in order to encourage my own opportunities.

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow you to do that.

I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.