Quotes About Originality

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

I always wear rings and cuffs from Made Her Think because designer Meredith Kahn is my friend and is one of my fashion idols. Everything she creates is really fresh.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

I'm in my own little lane, doing just me. I don't have to fit in.

I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

Everything I do, I do it being myself.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I just want to be myself.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

What made 'Dark Side Of The Moon' so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist.

I think authenticity is the name of the game.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

My dad named me that before anybody knew anything about the other Loretta Lynn. She hadn't even put a record out yet.

'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.