Kelela Quotes

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

That's very important when you're doing an ensemble piece, that you give it a variety of levels so it doesn't get too homogenous.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

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.

A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.

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.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

I've always dipped my finger in so many things.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I'm just not sticking to one thing. I like to have fun with it. I like to spread myself in many ways, so you're gonna get all types of music.

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique.

I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.

I try not to stick to any one thing, you know. That's always been important to me.

The whole family, we are all kind of different.