Quotes About Originality

This is my theory," she said. "If everybody is dressing formal, wear jeans. If everybody is wearing jeans, dress formal. Be different. They'll notice you.

Jimmy Bowen: You've got to find your own songs, because nobody but you knows what you want to sing.

I have two belly buttons.

People are buying music from 12-year-olds. No one realizes they didn't create this. They didn't write this. They didn't make this. All they have to do is press play, and you have a band.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood.

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

I just do me, honestly, I do me. It don't matter if the cameras are there or not, I'd be doing the same thing.

I don't think I'm the cookie-cutter candidate.

I'm not a Blairite candidate, I'm my own candidate.

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

I had this thing where I only wanted to work on original material, no adaptations, and obviously, that changed. I really wanted to have the resources and have the space and the time to tell stories that I've really cared about. I've kind of changed my approach, but I've gotten to do that, to tell stories that I really care about.

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

I don't like the sterility of the casting office.

Ultimately, I'd like to create a body of work where every album has its own personality and a reason to exist within the catalog, not just 'more of the same.'

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

I've always tried to come up with something that would catch your ear.

You can't just keep bottling the same thing over and over again and think the audience isn't going to catch on.