Quotes About Originality

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

Everything you see on my channel was made by me - no one else was involved.

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

I did not plan... the Cube as a competitive item.

There is nobody on earth who could totally impersonate Jack Lewis, because you may look like him from the front or from the side, you may sound like him, but there'll be all sorts of aspects of you that will be very dissimilar to the man.

I'm actually quite proud of the fact that we made a success of ourselves in a donkey jacket and DMs, without any thought to sexualising what we were doing.

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

We had barracuda jackets and alligator shirts with the collars up. We were wearing the collar up before it was cool.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

It's a great compliment to be compared to Michael Jackson, but people are starting to realize now that I'm just me, and that's all I want to to be.

I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

There's only one Luke James, and I make damn sure that you know that.

Before I knew it, I was singing, 'I'm so tired of being alone,' and that's Al right there. From then, my attitude was, 'Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I'm not going to emulate them anymore.'

I'm not James Dean. And no one else is, either.

Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we'd play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we'd go for a jam for four or five minutes. At some point, we had six or seven of those sections, and we didn't need to cover other people's songs anymore.

I would say the main thing is, don't just copy yourself, which is what a lot of sequels do. And in some cases, it works. Like James Bond movies. But James Bond is a different type of character.

When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

I wore ripped jeans and headbands before people wore that. I've been this guy ever since.