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" It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy. "

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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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" 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. "

" I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing. "

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" I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist. "

" Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant. "

" I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a very open person. "

" Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does. "

" I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs. "

" I don't take myself too seriously. "

" I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business. "

" I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual. "

" I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me. "

" I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that. "

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" Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it. "

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" Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, 'So you're not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there's no studios there, baby girl.' "

" I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out. "

" When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie. "