Quotes About Originality

It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.

As a singer-songwriter I definitely think I push the mould a lot.

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

There are a lot of singers, but they weren't doing it the way I was, taking an Adele song and putting a hip hop beat behind it to make it a different song.

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that we have to create something that someone else has already done before.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

What I can't understand is why people still won't give me the credibility that I look for. If Mojo or any other of those magazines would give me the credit for only ever performing my own songs rather than someone like Rod Stewart singing other people's songs looking for success.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

There are other people who think they know everything and it goes back to the same formula, but I'm not with them. I'm not the same as everyone else and every single day I'm writing a new page in history.

I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.

There's a lot of thought that goes into every single thing I wear.

People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.

If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.

I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.

Your favourite songs by your favourite bands are never the singles. It's when they've done exactly what they wanted without any compromise and not worried about the reaction.

I can sign things that I love that may not be selling millions of singles but that are just awesome music.

If you're a game company, you want to create a singular gaming experience, and part of that is doing stuff that nobody else is doing. If you're trying to create a game that feels different, you're going to create a lead that feels different. It's not going to be just another white guy.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.

One of the things I admire most about millennials is they celebrate individualism, and their singularity is encouraged. To be different is to be cool as opposed to weird.