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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. "

Dawn Richard

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't take myself too seriously. "

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

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

" When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie. "

Dawn Richard

Master

College

" I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be anything other than in that moment. "

" I've had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, 'Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.' It's the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn't do it. "

" There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things. "

" 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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Story

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