Quotes About Originality

You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.

You know what? I wanna play something that is really... it changes the game. I don't wanna be the same story where it's the Charles Bronson formula, where he's getting revenge or whatever.

I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.

When I do things that don't feel pure or make any moves that I don't feel like represent me or who I am, it makes me feel like I wanna throw up. So I just do me, and I guess people just take that how they do.

I think Justin Bieber and Zayn have both been listening to me a lot, and they basically wanna be me.

I never want to give people something I've already given them; I wanna give them something new, you know? So the people who've been enjoying my music for years, I hope they continue to enjoy.

Everything's so, like, saturated nowadays. So if you wanna, like, make an impact, you gotta do something different. Do something new.

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.

People like me for who I am, I don't wanna change that, if anything I just wanna hone my craft and get better at it.

I could only do music if I could do it the way I could do it. That's what be making me stop, I don't wanna do music in the box.

I don't wanna go full mainstream and have my followers go 'What happened?'

I just like to do things that people can remember, but I wanna always do my own album and make statements.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.

I wanna be myself and be the first Jason Jordan. I don't wanna be the second Kurt Angle.

I have my own batting style and don't want to be compared with Kohli.

I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models... they all have an individual look.