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

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" My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less. "

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

" I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself. "

" When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed. "

" I'm not a very open person. "

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

" Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting. "

" I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business. "

" When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars. "

" There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that. "

" I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that. "

" '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. "

" Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music. "

" I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules. "

" I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual. "

" I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix. "

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

" R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed. "