Quotes About Originality

I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

I'm not hip-hop.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

We hire people who are freaks. They don't have social lives.

I'm not the type of person who can be a director for hire, I have to find my own way into it.

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

My dad didn't see limitations in himself or in other people. He did what he did his way and left behind an extremely unique footprint.

I really admire Ed Sheeran. He seems to have really beaten his way through and I think that's fantastic. He's his own man - good for him. But there aren't many of him out there.

Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth.

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

I think taking a hookline of a hit song and making a new song is fun.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.

I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.'

I could make a PartyNextDoor album that's clean, all hits. That's not what I care about doing.

As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like 'I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.' And I'm always like, 'Absolutely not.'

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.

I wanted to make a video for the holidays, but none of the traditional holiday songs were moving me.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

We not from Hollywood, so I'm not playing Hollywood's game.