Quotes About Originality

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

I love 'Another Round.' It's Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton's podcast that's through BuzzFeed, and they're real funny and really themselves. And I like it because it's very funny, but it's outside the realm of comedians talking about comedy.

I don't want to be a reasonable facsimile of anyone.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Everyone always asks, 'Did you ever rebel? Did you dye your hair blue? Did you wear black nail polish?' I mean, of course, there have been episodes when you wear weird-colored lipstick... But generally, I think I was pretty much the way I am now.

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

The real trendsetters are the ones who rebel. Those are the ones who everyone in fashion eventually follows.

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I do not try to duplicate anyone's success; I am just really inspired by what they have done. I like the fact that The Roots can tour extensively, put out albums, and be so well received; that takes a lot of work. I really admire that, and it's something that I try to attain myself.

As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.

I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

I like working with creative people who are receptive to new ideas, who want to do things that are different, who want to create films of a different mould.

Maybe you have a particular type of sound you want to go for, but if you really want to be original, there's no real recipe for that. For me it's just about letting it come to you... if you can let your head clear out, then almost anything is available.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.

There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.