Nipsey Hussle Quotes

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

I'm not trying to be the younger, blonder version of anyone. I'm trying to be Tomi.

I pride myself on being unique in my own right. I wanted to be myself.

I don't want them to compare me to one or the other - I want people to know me for being Griezmann.

You have to definitely be yourself in order to stand out.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

I'm not going to be Rihanna. No one can be Rihanna except for Rihanna.

Since the beginning, I have always tried to just be me. There have been moments in my career as a YouTuber where I've recognized that I'm trying to emulate something else, or I'm being heavily influenced by a YouTuber or something like that, and I realize that's not what I want to be putting out.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

Although there's been a fighter before me called Mike Tyson, I'm my own Tyson. I'm Tyson Fury. I ain't trying to be anybody else.