Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.

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

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!

I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing.

There are so many voices on YouTube, and there are incredible creators that are popular for a reason. And although it's great to be inspired by them, nobody is going to subscribe to a second-rate version of them. It's really important to put your best foot forward and be your best self because you will always be the number one version of you.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Image is not one way to differentiate yourself, it's the only way.

I think it's the most wonderful thing in the world to have an identity, something the audience can remember you for.

Don't try and be like someone else. There is already a Michael Jackson, a Janet Jackson, a Beyonce. You be you. And take advantage of the social media platform you have to share. That wasn't around when I started out.

I don't wanna be like everybody else, I don't wanna rap like everybody else.

From the way I sing to what I write about to what I put out with my stamp separates me from everyone else.

I feel like my rise is connected to my lyrics, my look, my dance, my character, it all feeds into the same funnel, which is me, myself.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

I don't think there's a good or wrong way of broadcasting. The more unique you are, the more opportunities you're going to get.

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

Sheryl Crow. I loved her 'Tuesday Night Music Club.' She expressed her own point of view, and she wasn't trying to be like anyone else, and I loved that. That's been the thinking of all my favorite artists.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

I came out with sounds that didn't sound like the usual hip-hop beat. I took that chance because no one would identify with me if I sound like somebody who's already out.