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" I use Ecoco EcoStyler gel, but the alcohol-free protein one. That's the key. "

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" I listen to Stevie Nicks. "

" I love empowering women. I think it's crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you're playing yourself - I ride with whoever rides with me. "

" I think we all do: I think we wonder if we're supposed to be here, if we're doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time. "

Doing The Right Thing

" I don't think I'm inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy... thing. And I'm very drawn to female energy, but I don't really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it. "

" Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal. "

" I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash. "

" My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther. "

" I don't listen to my own music, so to me, it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything. "

" So many people meet and become friends at my shows that didn't know each other before. "

" I don't have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I'm there. That's all that matters. "

" I don't listen to my music if I'm not making it. "

" Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner. "

" My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in. "

" I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost. "

" I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me. "

" I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though. "

" Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me. "

" I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to. "

" My parents wanted me to go to school. "

" Biochemical interactions are very interesting to me. "

" I love when things that I'm involved in really matter and when people like me back and don't just think I'm corny. "

" Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice. "

" I always wanted to be a Klingon princess. They were so pretty, and their hair was fire. My hair is Klingon, I feel like. "

" How many thick black women are there singing whatever I'm singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can't really judge someone else for judging me! "

" I don't have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don't even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one. "

" On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture. "

" My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way. "

" When you're, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don't really take the time to make you look beautiful. "

" In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realized, 'Oh I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind.' "

" I was unpopular my whole life. "