Quotes About Originality

My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.

I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.

One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.

One thing I'm not going to do is change up anything. Like, I'm always gonna be me.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I just thought that if you are going to do a one-woman show you need to come with it, you know? Don't just stand there doing characters. You need to have something to say.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things.

I just do my own thing, and my flower continues to blossom like one of those delicious Bloomin' Onions from Outback Steakhouse.

I don't want to change who I am or where I'm from and online I don't hesitate to delete and flex the block button.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.