Quotes About Originality

I am not a drag queen.

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

A queen does not wear clothes off the runways.

My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.

As drag queens, you constantly have to be coming up with, 'What's the thing no one's ever seen before?'

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.

You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue.

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I don't carry off 'quirky.'

If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.

I like people who have their own quirky style. I'm not really attracted to typically good looking men.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.

I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.

I'm not going to give quotes about inventing the 'beach book,' but I was certainly at the forefront of it.

I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.