Glenn Danzig Quotes

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

It's only when you push at the edges that you excel.

I try to pick the best from what is offered to me, and then with roles, also, I try to add something new. There is a constant conflict to not become repetitive.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not doing the same thing over and over.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.