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" My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow. "

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" A lot of people were getting million-dollar deals from music I felt was trash, because their videos were going viral. I wanted to put out music that had soul, because that's what was missing. "

Kali Uchis

Missing

Music

Trash

" That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition. "

" Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that. "

" I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me. "

" I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it. "

" When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural. "

" It's really natural for me to write bilingually. "

Kali Uchis

Really

Natural

" I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things. "

" While performing, I can't wear anything that I'm not going to be able to dance in or heels that don't have ankle support. "

" N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years. "

" If you really want to get over someone or something in your life, I suggest you throw on some Ivy Queen. She will have you feeling extra bossy. "

" You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life. "

" You can consciously make a difference with music. Bob Marley is one of those few artists that everyone can say that they love. He makes you feel good. It's very real. "

" I've always been someone who, without wanting to or without trying to, I draw attention to myself sometimes in negative ways. It made me sharp, and it made me quick. "

Kali Uchis

Trying

Myself

" The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out. "

" I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects. "

Kali Uchis

Art

Grateful

" I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through. "

" I'm just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music. "

Kali Uchis

Growing

Music

" I think it's boring when everybody wears the same brands or the same styles, and it's like, 'Oh, this is the new trend.' "

" As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects. "

" I made music just for myself. "

" I can only be inspired if I'm working with people that I really respect. "

" As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand. "

Kali Uchis

Work

Myself

" Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar. His songs are everywhere, and there's a statue of him. He's pretty big for Latin America, and for Colombia especially. "

" I love a good old-school reggaeton song. "

" I used to love to look at cover art for vinyls. "

" I think everybody needs to be more empathetic. "

" We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us. "

" I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write. "

" It's really not easy to be an artist. It's not easy to put yourself out there and be honest. I'm making things that are really happening to me, and it's not easy to share that with the world. "

Kali Uchis

Yourself

World