Quotes About Originality

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

Styling is important. I dont want everyone to look the same in my clothes

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

I don't think you make fans happy by just replicating frames. What they want to see is that you stayed true to the story, true to the characters and true to the design.

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don't want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something." Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what you came up with?

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.