I wanted to interview original people to find out what is originality. Rebecca (20 years old) has learning difficulties, she can't allocate properly her memories and she often forgets things. She couldn't define originality - it was too difficult for her, but she easily drew something original.
Mel (61 years old) is a full time daddy and part time chef at a pub. I think he is a very original man with interesting experience. I asked him twice about originality (interview and questionnaire) and twice I got slightly different answers. It was very difficult for Mel to define originality, especially because he tried to give an original answer.
At the end I interviewed myself as I thought it could be quite an original interview, It was also difficult for me to define originality and my answer turned out to be quite complicated, but hopefully understandable.
We are all different so originality means something different to all of us.  

BI: What is originality?
B: Originality means something different to everyone. To me originality is an attempt to create something innovative. But it is hardly impossible to create something 100% original as we are all influenced by tradition, history, knowledge, experience, nature etc. In my opinion there are things more and less original than other things. There are things more and less influenced by what was created so far, but everything is unique. There are no two things completely the same as it is impossible to create two the same things at the same time, place, by the same person or machine. Every time the same image is used it changes its meaning- depending on the medium used, context and on who created a new image, when and where. Imitation could be said to add tradition to the previous history of an object.  
BI: Do you think there is a chance to create something 100% original?
B: Never say never. Maybe it is possible, but it would be very difficult. The only way to do it is to isolate a person from the world, people, nature, everything... To put this person where is nothing... and there is no place like that. But even if it was then this person could be influenced by his/her own experience. And it is not possible to create something out of 100% nothingness.
BI: What is this person had no memories?
B: Good question. If a person couldn't remember anything, how could he/she create anything at all? Sounds impossible. But never say never.
BI: Do you agree with people who say there is no such a thing as originality?
B: No, if there weren't originality it wouldn't be it in the dictionary. Some people say nothing is original. I would say that nothing is 100% original. But we describe originality when we think of something that we haven't seen before and it is somehow different to what we have seen/knew before. The same thing came be original to one person and not original to someone else.
BI: Do you think originality is an attempt of not coping?
B: Yes and no. It is an attempt of not coping, but we always copy more or less. As Walter Benjamin said: " Man-made artifacts could always be imitated by men. Mechanical reproduction of a work of art, however, represents something new." So we can create something new, original (not 100% original though) by adding something to what was created before.
BI: You have created www.originalresearch.co.uk , do you think it is original website?
B: Yes, it is original, it is not very original, but it is original. I was influenced by million things and hundreds of people to create this website. The look of the website is not original, but the content is original and one particular research method is in my opinion quite original - the life exhibition method. And the fact that I am interviewing myself is quite unusual.
BI: Why did you create this website?
B: I had many reasons. It was my final project at college, I wanted to support our final exhibition, which is about originality, I wanted to inspire other people and to create something useful, interesting and original.
BI: Did you enjoy creating it?
B: Oh yes, but it was lots of work, hard work, but what's a satisfaction.