Quotes About Originality

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different.

I'm not here to change the world, I'm just want to be me and do what I do.

'The Big Narstie Show' is, basically, Channel 4 gave me a good amount of dough to be myself.

I love Channel 4 and Clerkenwell Films, they aren't afraid to take risks.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

When you try and appeal to the most people, you end up not actually making anything unique, because to be at the top of the charts I guess you have to do something quite bland so as to please as many people as possible.

I am not trying to chase what other people are doing.

I'm not trying to chase a radio hit, but at a certain time, you can't make the same album over and over.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

For 'Black Beatles' to be so true to us and our sound - we weren't chasing a sound - it solidifies that the world is ready for us and what we have to come.

Yeah and that's the thing, you can have a 100 different chat shows, they can all look the same and do the same thing, but if you can get in there and set something apart, you win.

I can't be the same as another player. I am just my way and I will try to improve on that at Chelsea.

I did not want to follow Chi Udayashankerji; now Yogaraj Bhat does not want to follow me in writing lyrics.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

While choosing shows, I look at stories and the concept, and that has to be different.

Bad Name' is just that head-nod, traditional loop over a breakbeat, chopped up, and it sounds like the way I do my thing.

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the guitar, so the bass works just fine for me.

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

If God wanted be to be black, I'd be black; if he wanted me to be white, I'd be white, so I guess He chose for me to be both and original. That's the way I'm supposed to be.