Quotes About Originality

I don't like scripts.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

Most kids, you can turn off their auditions after five seconds, because there's nothing authentic about it.

We're not the new anything. We're the first 5 Seconds of Summer.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

There's no need to dress like everyone else. It's much more fun to create your own look.

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

Creativity's about ownership.

When you are yourself, there is no wrong and there is no right, because being authentic and true to who you are and owning it is all anyone could ever ask of you.

I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.

It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.

There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.

There's no act. That's the whole Charles Barkley package. That's why people like him.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I agree the SS 2014 collection from my own line comprising knee pads and polka dots didn't feel too good but I'm proud of the fact that it was original.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

I never wanted to be Keith Richards or Jimmy Page.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.