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" 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. "

Dawn Richard

People

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Feeling

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

" How many people can say they had Anna Wintour on a record? Not even an album, just a mixtape? It's audacious, disrespectful, and I feel like it's a little bit raw, and that's what Dirty Money is. "

Dawn Richard

Feel

Dirty

" I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas. "

" I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane. "

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

" Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are. "

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

Dawn Richard

Woman

Celebrate

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

" I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there. "

" I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals, by your choreography, by your dance. It's imperative as an artist. "

" 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. "

" My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good. "

Dawn Richard

Teacher

Music

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

" 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. "

Dawn Richard

Moral

Story

" I don't take myself too seriously. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dawn Richard

Master

College

" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

" The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive. "

" 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. "

" There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they'd owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun. "

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

" I wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change. "

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

" Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong. "