Quotes About Originality

It was no use getting angry with Wullie; he lived in a Wullie-shaped world of his own. You had to think diagonally.

Where do you get your fantastic ideas from? You steal them. You steal them from reality. It outstrips fantasy most the time.

I have to find the edge of the envelope and put my stamp on it.

the really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

Right, pass the word along: no one is to look like a sock, understand?

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.

There's nothing as boring as perfection

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

It's kind of a journalistic thing to say, 'This person is the next so and so.' I think actual musicians are never really into those kinds of comparisons.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

The crazy thing about independent filmmaking is that you're so judged on your first film. It almost needs to be one of those groundbreaking 'I've-never-seen-that-before'-type movies.

It's always nice for the judges and the audiences to have something a bit different so they don't always see and hear the same thing.

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

For a while, I drank the juice - I did things the way everybody else said to. I listened to their advice. But it didn't work.

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

We've never been squeaky-clean from the jump. We've never been Disney or Sesame Street, you know.

When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.

I don't take anything from the podcast and bring it to my act, because I feel like that's been burned, unless I feel like I can really develop it beyond two or three jumps beyond what I said on the podcast.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I need to just be myself, express myself.

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.