DJ Premier Quotes

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'm fortunate to be a player who can do a lot of things well. Not everything perfectly, but several things well.

There's no doubt about it: I think that my versatility helps me.

I appreciate versatility.

I want to be a genuine allrounder.

I take pride in being a jack of all trades.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.

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

There's many sides to a coin and one person can in fact do a lot of different things.

I have always aimed for versatility.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

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 really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

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.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer.

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.

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 think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.