creativity can't be negative. if you try not to sound like something, you just run to the opposite of whatever it is, and by so doing, you end up including the thing you were trying to avoid.

"i don't want to be like a christian, so i'll be a satanist." result is that you are still thinking about all the same things, just in a different light.

i think that to truly sound different, you have to just make whatever you feel like, and don't worry about what anyone else is doing.