Quotes About Originality

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

Nobody wanted to run back kicks until you saw Billy 'White Shoes'' Johnson.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

I can't describe my sound. That's something I don't ever think about and I kinda don't want to think about it.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

I think the knock TNA had is they seemed to worry too much about what WWE was doing instead of focusing on their own.

Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Americans might not understand, but within Korea, Big Bang was one of the first artists to make their own production. We have our own interpretation of our own songs. We do our own thing.

Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.

I can tell you every element of every single look from each collection - one to 30 - without looking at a picture: my label is all done by me.

Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be unique.