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

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" There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing. "

" 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 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 don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard. "

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

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

" I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.' "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I write for myself. It's therapy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that. "

" 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. "