Quotes About Originality

If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.

You're never going to see me drinking some protein shake and doing 20 squat thrusts. I will never follow suit.

You need to do what's comfortable to you... if it doesn't suit your personality then I wouldn't try to be someone I'm not.

I wore a green suit and green polo-neck to the 'Shrill' premiere. I loved it because on paper it sounds disgusting, but I managed to pull it off!

I have a lot of suits, but I'm not the kind of person who looks good in a suit. Suits are too serious for me. They are better if you can break the rules, so that's why I always try to add something crazy to them.

I haven't tried to model myself on anyone. I have my own action, and that suits me.

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.

I don't live in drag... I don't sit around in negligees and I don't wear little Adolfo suits to lunch. Of course, if I had a couple of Bob Mackie outfits, things might be different.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.

There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.

Sundance is like a genre.

I want my music, whether it's sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.

A unique style comes from not being able to do things in a conventional manner. If David Byrne could have sung like Paul McCartney, he would have.

It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

You look at who's actually created shows for FX that have succeeded, and there are a lot of first-time showrunners - Ryan Murphy, Denis Leary, Louis C.K., the 'It's Always Sunny' creators, Kurt Sutter, Joe Weisberg, Pamela Adlon, Donald Glover.

The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.

With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.