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" A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end. "

Dawn Richard

Moral

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" To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt. "

" I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there. "

" When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they'd owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun. "

" Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music. "

Dawn Richard

Fashion

Side

" My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series. "

Dawn Richard

Library

Cool

" I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane. "

" I write for myself. It's therapy. "

" I connect so much with Peter Gabriel's sound because, to me, he always had that South African vibe. His drums were always something to move to: it was almost like Calypso. I'm a big fan. "

Dawn Richard

Move

Big

" I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them. "

Dawn Richard

Right

Always

" I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me. "

Dawn Richard

You

Mainstream

" Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it. "

" I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that. "

" It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it. "

" Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball. "

" When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose. "

" There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money. "

" I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together. "

" You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that. "

" I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control. "

" Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does. "

" I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that. "

" You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it. "

" I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period. "

" Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all. "

" I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please. "

" I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion. "

" You don't know how far you can go until you push it. "

" I don't really feel there's rules in my everyday wear. I kind of do whatever the hell I want to do. "

" I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals, by your choreography, by your dance. It's imperative as an artist. "

" Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting. "