Quotes About Originality

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

People are getting force-fed commercial, generic records that are just safe, safe, safe.

I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

I don't write to a genre.

Grime must be its own genre.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.

I like the idea of blending genres.

We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.

You've got to be genuine and not try and be someone else - but be a better you all the time.

Everything that I've done in wrestling and hopefully going forward in entertainment has always been unique and genuine to who I am.

If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.

I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it.

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

I'm not getting dressed to make a scene or, like, 'Oh, look what Westbrook has on today!' If I like something, I'll put it on. I go to the game. That's how it is.

The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can't call it being in love, because the words are so debased.

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

I don't feel like I'm a character; I certainly don't feel like I'm a gimmick. I am who I am.

Just because gladiator shoes are in, everybody can't start flaunting those.