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" I've been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I'm free enough to execute new things vocally onstage and give my best performance possible. "

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" I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it. "

SZA

Too Much

Think

Music

" I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends. "

" I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I'm grateful for that. "

" I don't have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I'm there. That's all that matters. "

" I do a lot of strange things. "

" We're changing little girls' lives across the world, and we didn't even know what we were doing when we started. "

" My parents wanted me to go to school. "

SZA

School

Wanted

" I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports. "

" I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after. "

" I love empowering women. I think it's crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you're playing yourself - I ride with whoever rides with me. "

" I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl. "

" I used to be offended when people would compare me to Erykah Badu. Because I'm black, thick, and have large lips? There's nothing similar about us whatsoever, and I felt very disrespected by the fact that people needed to pigeonhole me. I wasn't even raised on Erykah Badu! "

" I don't think I'm inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy... thing. And I'm very drawn to female energy, but I don't really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it. "

SZA

Universe

Energy

" I have a really strong gluten allergy, and I'm pretty lactose-intolerant, like, in a big way, but I love cheese. "

SZA

Way

Strong

" I'm very into details, so I watch movies just for the details. "

" When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own. "

" The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk. "

" I wasn't one of those girls who sang at church. "

" I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun. "

" I was a funky kid. "

SZA

Kid

Funky

" I love the comparison with Aaliyah and Timbaland, because Aaliyah is a legend, and there is a large cinematic feel to Timbaland's sound, but what I do is different. "

" I don't listen to my own music, so to me, it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything. "

SZA

Awesome

Music

" When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, 'How do you feel about feminism?' And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think and a little bit in between. "

" Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice. "

" I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj's 'Feeling Myself.' "

" I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way. "

" My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way. "

" I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me. "

SZA

Want

Mom

" I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me. "

SZA

Learner

Film

" I definitely get inspiration from the 'gram. I mean, Instagram is Google, essentially. I love looking at pictures of beautiful women. "