Quotes About Originality

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

What I love is getting a new joke, or a premise like a sketch idea or a movie idea. That's the best feeling for a comedian.

I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food become the skilled artists of their time.

I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

I was the first to wear colored skinny jeans.

I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.

The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.

I love being not cool.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

Since childhood I'd been suspected of imagination

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that your story has never been told before, because it hasn't.

I love being creative.