Quotes About Originality

Like snowflakes, no two fistfights are the same.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you put your very existence into it, your sensitivity and humanity, it makes for a sound distinctly yours,

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?"

No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

Try to think of new ways to solve the old problems. Very often we look at something we have and say, "I could make it better.' That's innovation.

If you read the same things as others and say the same things they say, then you're perceived as intelligent. I'm a bit more independent and radical and consider intelligence the ability to think about matters on your own and ask a lot of skeptical questions to get at the real truth, not just what you're told it is.

I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt, with a skirt and pants to go with it.

I don't knock anyone's hustle, but I didn't want to slap my name on anything that wasn't authentic to me.

I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on an artist. It's more interesting when you see people who have their own style.

I want to see good-quality comedy shows, not the slapstick ones or where people imitate others.

I brought my personality to HQ. I injected my DNA into this thing. They gave me a blank slate to work with.

I do like to have a clean slate, especially when you're in indie film.

Some nights I might wear some crazy stuff. Some nights I might be more regular. I'll wear shoes that no one knows and is a sleeper, but it might be something that I really love.

I wear my musical heart on my sleeve and show all my influences off. I'm happy for someone to point out that my song sounds like someone else's.

All of my favorite artists who inspired me were never afraid to be uncool and never afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves - no matter how much flak they took for it.

Sometimes my influences are really on my sleeve. So I just make sure to wear a lot of sleeves.

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.