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" If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing. "

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" I think it's boring when everybody wears the same brands or the same styles, and it's like, 'Oh, this is the new trend.' "

Kali Uchis

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" It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too. "

" Diplo kept asking me who styled my 'What They Say' video. I was like, 'No, that's just my clothes!' "

Kali Uchis

Just

Clothes

" I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write. "

" I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it. "

" I made music just for myself. "

" Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you. "

" Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that. "

" The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out. "

" Aliens are definitely real. "

Kali Uchis

Definitely

Real

" When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected. "

" When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good. "

Kali Uchis

Creative

Got

" It's difficult as an artist sometimes. There's a lot of pressure when it's your first album. You want to make something that's meaningful and timeless, not something that's trendy. "

" It's really not easy to be an artist. It's not easy to put yourself out there and be honest. I'm making things that are really happening to me, and it's not easy to share that with the world. "

Kali Uchis

Yourself

World

" As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand. "

Kali Uchis

Work

Myself

" Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person. "

" The constant pressure to be the perfect, ideal female - there's no such thing. "

" I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people. "

" My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow. "

" Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing. "

" Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person. "

" We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us. "

" It's really natural for me to write bilingually. "

Kali Uchis

Really

Natural

" Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment. "

" I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new. "

" That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition. "

" As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects. "

" Being able to incorporate my language into songs is really cool. It's really cool to see that people are susceptible to it. It helps with writing a lot to turn off one language and then go to another. "

Kali Uchis

People

Language

" I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own. "

" The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me. "