Quotes About Originality

The lyrics - everything I sing, I've written.

There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.

Before every performance, you need at least half an hour to focus on what you are about to do: the walk-on and walk-off, the lyrics, how you are going to sing it - like, the original or bring your own personal flavour to it - how are you going to make it the best.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

I'm not a hit machine.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

When I came up, it was Macho Man and all these other guys, and you had to come up with your own stuff. If you didn't come up with your own stuff, you weren't getting over.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Being mainstream is fun.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

My music isn't mainstream music.

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

It's an important thing for children to be able to make up their own words.

I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.

I like to make up my own lines and dress myself and act like myself and no other characters.

I don't believe in anything artificial. I don't believe in makeup.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

I was always really creative and making up stuff.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

To make a mark, you have to do something different.

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.