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" My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older. "
SZA
Mom
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" I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging. "
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" I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike. "
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" Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. "
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" I always wanted to be a Klingon princess. They were so pretty, and their hair was fire. My hair is Klingon, I feel like. "
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" I've fried my hair off. I've shaved my hair off. I've done it all. "
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" I think we all do: I think we wonder if we're supposed to be here, if we're doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time. "
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" Don't get discouraged with your skin when it doesn't do what you want it to do... Give it some time. That's the only way to get to know yourself. "
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" When you're, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don't really take the time to make you look beautiful. "
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" When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal. "
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" My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages. "
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" I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after. "
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" How many thick black women are there singing whatever I'm singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can't really judge someone else for judging me! "
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" 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. "
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" I love Obama, and I just want to reiterate it again to everyone from every hilltop and every mountain: I love him! "
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" I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though. "
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" 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! "
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