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" It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting. "

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" 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. "

" Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all. "

" I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual. "

" 'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will. "

" It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it. "

" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

" I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman? "

" My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now. "

" There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things. "

" I connect so much with Peter Gabriel's sound because, to me, he always had that South African vibe. His drums were always something to move to: it was almost like Calypso. I'm a big fan. "

" I don't take myself too seriously. "

" I've had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, 'Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.' It's the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn't do it. "

" I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.' "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a very open person. "

" My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series. "

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

" I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage. "

" Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball. "

" 'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white. "

" The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home. "

" You don't know how far you can go until you push it. "

" 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'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. "

" You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it. "

" 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. "

" A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end. "

" I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period. "

" I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please. "