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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Dawn Richard

Small

Started

My Own

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

" I'm not a very open person. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Dawn Richard

Feel

Dirty

" 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

" 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. "

" 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 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 think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dawn Richard

Fashion

Side

" Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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