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" 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. "

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" Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed. "

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

" Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant. "

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" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

" I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend. "

" Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless. "

" 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.' "

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

" I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business. "

" 'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white. "

" Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it. "

" I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs. "

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

" My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now. "

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

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" 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. "

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