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" I don't listen to my own music, so to me, it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything. "

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" I don't like to shop. It creates so much anxiety. "

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Anxiety

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" I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after. "

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" I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way. "

" I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative. "

" I don't have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don't even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one. "

" I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts. "

" My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in. "

" I feel like when you say 'activist,' you have to have so much clarity, and I don't always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I'm trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be. "

" My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way. "

" I love when things that I'm involved in really matter and when people like me back and don't just think I'm corny. "

" I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me. "

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Mom

" I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons. "

" I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends. "

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Very

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SZA

I Think

Think

" I love Obama, and I just want to reiterate it again to everyone from every hilltop and every mountain: I love him! "

" I don't have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I'm there. That's all that matters. "

" I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in. I'd love to contribute to that. "

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Music

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