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" 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. "

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" I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas. "

" My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules. "

" Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all. "

" I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt. "

" It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it. "

" 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. "

" I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control. "

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

" I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix. "

" My father's music is all I remember from my childhood. "

" 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 don't take myself too seriously. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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