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" I'm just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music. "

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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. "

" As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face. "

" I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of people were getting million-dollar deals from music I felt was trash, because their videos were going viral. I wanted to put out music that had soul, because that's what was missing. "

" Aliens are definitely real. "

" My favourite 'stage' of Shakira was the brunette punk rock one, but she'll always have a special place in my heart, whatever she's doing. "

" Spanish is such an important language globally. "

" The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that, being able to also call Colombia my home, it was such an important part of my introduction as an artist, too, because it's such a big part of my life as a human being. "

" I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging. "

" I used to love to look at cover art for vinyls. "

" I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera. "

" I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more. "

" 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. "

" No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end. "

" I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself. "

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

" I'm constantly progressing. My style is changing every day. "

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" My dad's job was to manage apartment complexes, so when people would move out or when people would die or whatever, people left things in their apartments, he would always bring me home people's collection of music that they left behind. I was excited because I didn't really have money to go to the CD store all the time. "

" La India's voice is so powerful. It will give you life. "

" I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me. "

" 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. "