Quotes About Originality

Authenticity is really important, and sometimes that's really hard to get.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.

We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

I don't care much about conforming.

Anyone can play Doors songs, unless it's for an ad for some product.

For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.

I like making dope music.

For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song, but it's all coming from one artist.

I'm trying to be like Drake and make my own genre.

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what I try to do.

I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

When I get dressed, it's like freestyling.

If you see somebody dressing like me, you know they're purposely trying to dress like me because I dress like nothing.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

I just really love being the first to do something and that drives me to think, 'What are people not doing right now, and how can I be the best at it?'

For my first album, I thought it was most important for people to hear my voice and to not let it be drowned out by too many lasers and other sounds.

I've always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn't matter if they were in film or music or fashion.

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

I didn't want to work on dry, old plays written by the dry, old dead.