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

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

" You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting. "

" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "