Johnny Cash Quotes

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.

I write all of my material. It's all me.

Every time I do a cover, I completely... pick apart - I take apart the entire song and really reconstruct it. I try and make it my own.

I think if you're going to cover a song, you should definitely take it apart and put it back together as if you wrote it. I don't think you should sing it the same way that the artist sang it - that's kind of pointless.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.

Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them