Quotes About Originality

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

We really believe, existing in a climate where comic books and franchises are the order of the day, that new material and writers need to be fostered more than ever. And in the theater and in television, the idea of original writing holds real value.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I say that with realism.

I'd like to be part of out-of-the-box films like 'Shahid.' I see myself being part of realistic cinema.

I don't want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality.

I may be goofy, I may be corny, and I may be cheesy, but I'm me.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

You can't have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make them say, 'That sounds like Rakim.'

I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me.

I've gotten a lot of attention, I think, just for being myself. I think that a lot of people, when they come to a competition, are afraid to be themselves no matter who they are.

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

I don't want to do any more covers. It's good to learn to make things your own, but the education's over. 'Grace' is putting a lot of things to rest.

The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

Ridin' was natural, not forced. I didn't try to make a Grammy record.

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.

Whether it be a red eyeliner or a graphic line on the crease of my lids, I'm more attracted to the ideas of something interesting than being 'pretty.'

It's important to show that creativity is in many different sectors, not just in graphic design or filmmaking.

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.