Elijah Wood Quotes

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

Write about what makes you different.

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

No man was ever great by imitation.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

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

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.