Sean Kingston Quotes

I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

I don't really like to put stuff in a box as far as genre-specific.

I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.

I don't categorise cinema at all. If I am doing this, that means I am limiting myself.

I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me as I'm working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.