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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!
I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.
The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.
A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.
I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’
I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.
We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.
If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend
What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'
Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is
I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.
What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
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