Quotes About Originality

If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.

I think Swaggy P's in a lane of his own. I'm one of them type of guys.

I respect artists that know how to be artists, that know how to create their own lane and make people respect them for who they are and what they represent.

There's only one Lawrence Dallaglio and there's only one James Haskell.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.

I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

I have to say that the biggest lesson I have learned is to find your way to stand out.

The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

We make our own music, and the songs appeal to the public well, and the public likes them.

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

Be first and be lonely.

That's one thing I try to take pride in: not changing up. Just being who I am, and having people love me or hate me for who I am.

A simple love story can be made into an interesting film if the film-maker can think differently.

'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums.