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" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Thought
Cool
Music
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" 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. "
Dawn Richard
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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 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. "
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" Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture. "
Dawn Richard
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Dresses
" There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place. "
Dawn Richard
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Women
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" 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.' "
Dawn Richard
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Think
Thought
" I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion. "
Dawn Richard
Motion
Art
Dance
" When I look half naked on stage, it's not because I'm trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move. "
Dawn Richard
Trying
Sexy
Naked
" You don't know how far you can go until you push it. "
Dawn Richard
Far
Know
Push
" 'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself. "
Dawn Richard
Story
Fight
Hate
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Skin
Brand
Color
" 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
Go
College
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Roots
Back
Feel
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Art
Artist
Story
" 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
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Done
Free
Look
" The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home. "
Dawn Richard
Home
Feel
Black
" I'm not a very open person. "
Dawn Richard
Person
Very
Open
" I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas. "
Dawn Richard
My Own
Destiny
Control
" I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out. "
Dawn Richard
Life
Think
Stuck
" I don't really feel there's rules in my everyday wear. I kind of do whatever the hell I want to do. "
Dawn Richard
Want
Kind
Rules
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
People
Doing
Feeling
" R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed. "
Dawn Richard
New
Pigeonholed
Light
" Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it. "
Dawn Richard
Fear
Conquer
Anything
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
School
Scholarship
Game
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
You
Cool
Art
" I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual. "
Dawn Richard
Without
Knowing
Something
" I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman? "
Dawn Richard
Woman
Celebrate
Up
" Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting. "
Dawn Richard
Own
My Own
Structure
" I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that. "
Dawn Richard
People
Come
Imagery