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" It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music. "
Solange Knowles
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" Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part. "
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" Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God. "
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" In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that. "
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" What's important is that my family and I are all good. "
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" At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random. "
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" I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it. "
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" From a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be able to do my music but still be able to live a normal life. "
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" For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound. "
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" Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different. "
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