Mike Patton Quotes

I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own.

I've done a lot of assignment work in my life, and the only way you can do it is to make it your own as quickly as possible, and then you give it back.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

I brought my personality to HQ. I injected my DNA into this thing. They gave me a blank slate to work with.

I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Fashion is about change, don't you think?

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Everything is very individual for me in the way that I work; I don't just show a rotating rack of clothes.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.