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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. "

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" I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing. "

" I just know what I want for myself. "

" I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. "

" My first relationship was from when I was about 15 to 19. My second relationship was kind of like a rebound, but also a really important part of my journey - he was very emotionally manipulative and just wanted me to be an accessory. "

" 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. "

" I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican. "

" 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. "

" When I start something, I have to finish it, and I'm a super perfectionist, too. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I can only be inspired if I'm working with people that I really respect. "

" 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. "

" You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life. "

" I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little. "

" 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. "

" 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'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've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things. "

" I think everybody needs to be more empathetic. "

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

" N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years. "