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Creativity Quote by Kylie Minogue

"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is"

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Restless ambition, delivered with a preemptive eye-roll. Kylie Minogue’s “I just want to do everything” is a pop star’s mission statement, but the interesting part is the second sentence: she knows exactly how hunger gets policed, especially for women in entertainment. “I don’t want to sound soppy or too cliched” isn’t modesty so much as armor. She’s naming the trap before anyone else can spring it: if she expresses desire, she risks being dismissed as naive, sentimental, or packaged. So she inoculates the line with self-awareness, then says it anyway.

The intent is clear: to claim range. Minogue’s career has always played with reinvention - actress turned singer, bubblegum pop turned club credibility, the post-“Locomotion” pivot to “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” the long arc of surviving industry churn with a bright, controlled persona. “Everything” reads as both creative appetite and survival strategy in a business that rewards novelty but punishes visible striving. In pop, you’re expected to be effortlessly versatile: evolve constantly, but act like it just happened.

Subtextually, she’s pushing against the idea that polish equals emptiness. Kylie’s brand has often been light, glamorous, “nice” - categories that critics historically treat as unserious. This quote quietly rejects that: wanting it all isn’t vapid, it’s work. The clincher, “but that’s the way it is,” lands like a shrug with backbone: not a confession, a boundary. She won’t apologize for wanting more than one lane.

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Minogue, Kylie. (2026, January 15). I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-want-to-do-everything-i-dont-want-to-sound-161478/

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Minogue, Kylie. "I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-want-to-do-everything-i-dont-want-to-sound-161478/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-want-to-do-everything-i-dont-want-to-sound-161478/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Kylie Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is a Musician from Australia.

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