Kelela Quotes

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.

I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.

Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

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

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

I feel like, O.K., if I can make it as a singer, then let me try rapping. If I can make it as a rapper, then let me try writing. All right? If I make it as a rap singer and writer, then why not try to produce? I don't feel limited in any way.