Quotes About Originality

As brilliant as those dark Scandi noir dramas are, not everything has to be shot down a Danish alleyway.

Sometimes you have to take the risk that somebody will consider what you're making is noise, but if you don't try it, then nothing will move forward. I'd rather people hate something than just go 'meh.'

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.

I don't hear anyone out there that sounds like us. They can try but it's in the sonics, the whole carcass of the song. The way it attacks you is so well engineered. No one else can do that. They don't have the ability to make that noise.

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

I get that there is no one quite like me, nor should there be anybody quite like anybody else in any field. I've always said, 'Don't be the next anyone; be the first you.'

Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

Hunx is kind of his own person that is not really me in my normal life.

Normalcy is not interesting.

Normality is boring.

Comedy shouldn't be restrained under the belt of normality.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a lot of ideas because they won't fit, because they're not commercial.

I think the way you dress should be fun. Wearing stuff that people don't normally wear or wouldn't particularly think is their style, I love that. I think that's fun and I think everybody should do it.

I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.

I would say my flow is Aboriginal. Look at my face, nose, lips, and eyes.