Quotes About Originality

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

To have that mentality of wear whatever you want, be whoever you want to be, on and offstage. This is who I am.

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am.

Everybody wants to make better music.

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.