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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.' "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it. "

" 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. "

" There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business. "

" Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

" Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong. "

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

" 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. "

" The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home. "

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

" 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 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. "