Quotes About Originality

Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.

Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.

Every time, I try to make something different.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.

Every time I would say put a baby in every scene.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.