Quotes about Originality

It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.

'Krampus' had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.

Nothing can compensate for a lack of authenticity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.