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" Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural. "

Solange Knowles

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" Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys. "

Solange Knowles

" I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect. "

Solange Knowles

" I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees. "

Solange Knowles

" My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life. "

Solange Knowles

" My sound is Solange. It's definitely not Destiny's Child. "

Solange Knowles

" I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother. "

Solange Knowles

" The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons. "

Solange Knowles

" People from New Orleans are extremely prideful. "

Solange Knowles

" I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives. "

Solange Knowles

" Motherhood is such an evolving journey. "

Solange Knowles

" My son spends as much time with his dad as he does with me. "

Solange Knowles

" My ultimate beauty icon is Diana Ross. "

Solange Knowles

" Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while. "

Solange Knowles

" I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same. "

Solange Knowles

" 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. "

Solange Knowles

" I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me. "

Solange Knowles

" Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important. "

Solange Knowles

" Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere. "

Solange Knowles

" When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship. "

Solange Knowles

" Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games. "

Solange Knowles

" I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves. "

Solange Knowles

" I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that. "

Solange Knowles

" I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower. "

Solange Knowles

" My sister and I truly are best friends. "

Solange Knowles

" The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at. "

Solange Knowles

" My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot. "

Solange Knowles

" Dubai's a pretty powerful place. "

Solange Knowles

" I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable. "

Solange Knowles

" Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings. "

Solange Knowles

" 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. "

Solange Knowles