Cody Simpson Quotes

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.

I don't like to limit myself.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

I think focusing limits you. As long as nothing that I'm doing suffers from my ADD in wanting to do everything, then I want to just keep doing everything. It keeps it fresh and fun.

I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.