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" How many people can say they had Anna Wintour on a record? Not even an album, just a mixtape? It's audacious, disrespectful, and I feel like it's a little bit raw, and that's what Dirty Money is. "

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" 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

" When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed. "

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

Dawn Richard

You

Mainstream

" I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.' "

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

" I wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change. "

" When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars. "

" I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas. "

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

" 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. "

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Moral

Story

" The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home. "

" I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual. "

" Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, 'So you're not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there's no studios there, baby girl.' "

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

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

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

" My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good. "

Dawn Richard

Teacher

Music

" There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place. "

" It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting. "

" My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb. "

" 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 don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy. "

" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

" I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist. "

" Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a very open person. "