Quotes About Originality

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

The drums were new to me; I was just playing what was in my head. I was a guitar player originally - so on the drums, I just played what was in my head rather than caring too much about what others were playing. And in that way, I came up with a simple but unique style.

'Bling Bling' was originally a Big Tymers song.

I'm a big fan of 'Orphan Black,' and to be one of the original cast members is something that will always be dear to me.

I know I'm not the most orthodox kind of player. I just feel normal being like that.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

You never make movies for Oscars.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

Nobody does our music better than us.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.

Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.

One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical perspective.

In my lyrics, I used to always state two years ahead. I did that to make it seem like we were ahead of our time - a time capsule almost. It had never been done before.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.

Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.