James May Quotes

I'm terrible with titles.

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

I love making up titles.

It is always possible to create something original.

I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me.

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

Good titles are hard, people. Just ask the guy who came up with 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.'

We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.

Key! is the greatest rapper alive. I honestly, truly believe that no one is as effortless, weird, and creative, and themselves as he has been for years and years.

I definitely feel the pressure to keep things fresh and original.

I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?'

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

The Bludgeon Brothers are the Bludgeon Brothers. We don't care if people think we look like Kane. We are impactful and get the job done.

My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.

It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.

A good title is a work of a genius!