Kyle Quotes

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

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.

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

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

I definitely want to be as good and original as I can.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

I have to be ahead of myself so I don't just fit into the realm of everybody who sounds like me.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

We're always trying to stay on the cutting edge but also, at the same time, do something that's real. We're never going to do something that's not us.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.