Quotes About Originality

I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

I was always myself. I never pretended I'd been to a gig the night before and was hanging out with Rita Ora, because that's not what I do.

The true Hank III fans want me to be me.

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.

It's not a hard job to be yourself.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

I hate cliche.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

I hated being compared to anybody.

We'd rather be hated for what we are than loved for what we're not.