In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.
I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‘thing.’ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
In a weird way, ‘Veronica Mars’ was my reaction to ‘Freaks and Geeks’ because ‘Freaks and Geeks’ was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn’t have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.
All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick – no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
No matter how skillful you are, you can’t invent a product advantage that doesn’t exist. And if you do, and it’s just a gimmick, it’s going to fall apart anyway.
Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
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