Quotes About Originality

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

There are some people who fit into categories very well. But then there are a lot who don't.

It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.

I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

I like movies that don't fit in a category. Like, 'Get Out' - that was one of my favorite movies in a long time, and what is that?

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

You can be accessible without catering to an audience.

We're all just cats trying to be original, which is what I think being a B-boy is about.

I don't like to be part of the cattle. I like to just do my own thing.

If you truly want to be great, don't get caught up in what has been done before or who has done it.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

Don't be anything you're not. Be yourself. And people will either celebrate that or say, 'It's not for me.'

Celebrate the things that make you individual and unique, and realize that there's no one in this world that looks like you.

I celebrate the things that make me different, and it's worked to my advantage.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

It was getting very boring to watch celebrities all wearing the same dress.

Celebrities have nothing to do with style.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

I am who I am, and I'm not trying to act a certain way that I'm not.

I'm not ever going to - ever going to be able to put on chains and become the Migos.

You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.