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" I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage. "

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" I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less. "

" 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. "

" The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive. "

" 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 write for myself. It's therapy. "

" 'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will. "

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

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

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

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

" I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual. "

" My father's music is all I remember from my childhood. "

" 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 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. "

" There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that. "

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

" I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.' "

" I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing. "