Quotes About Originality

There are no rules when I compose songs.

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

There are no rules in art.

I would call myself the Pharrell of OVO. There are no rules for me.

There are no rules to writing a song.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

I was always growing, so it made no sense for my mom and dad to load me up with a bunch of clothes. But I hated coming to school and feeling like a girl could be like, 'Iman's probably gon' wear this today.' So I would always have to mix and match and find a way to look different. I took a lot of pride in that.

My whole act, my music, it's different; no-one does what I can do.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

Don't change for nobody.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

My whole thing is there is nobody else like you in this whole world.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.

We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now.

I just kind of do my own thing. I'm not trying to be like nobody else or nothing like that. Like when I travel, everybody's like, go to Dubai, it's a new thing. I can go to Dubai, but I'm not going to just because I'm not trying to go where everybody is going.