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" I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful. "

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" I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too. "

" When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away. "

" I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it. "

" I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know? "

" I don't dress to impress; I've never been that person. "

" I'm not an 'out there' person if it's not on stage or if I'm not around people I'm most comfortable with. "

" I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company. "

" I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk. "

" Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts. "

" I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic. "

" In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out. "

" I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that. "

" I like it when people have good flow, but I also like it when people actually say stuff. Because sometimes that's a very good distraction, like, to have impeccable flow, but you're saying a lot without saying anything. "

" I just always want to be as transparent as possible. "

" I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society. "

" I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself. "

" I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe. "

" I've worked really, really hard on my lyricism. "

" I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance. "

" I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual. "

" I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great. "

" I'm just a bit of a dreamer, and I get really in my thoughts. I get so deep with myself at times it's almost very scary. "

" When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write. "

" I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill. "

" Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music. "

" I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow. "

" I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work. "

" I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff. "

" Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever. "

" I want to be ambassador-like. I want to, you know, set examples, especially as a young black female. That, I think, is important, and I just want to be a bit of an example, you know. "