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" No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end. "

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

" I made music just for myself. "

" I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own. "

" I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights. "

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

" I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little. "

" It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety. "

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

" I've always considered myself a person of color. "

" La India's voice is so powerful. It will give you life. "

" 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. "

" Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life. "

" I think everybody needs to be more empathetic. "

" Being able to incorporate my language into songs is really cool. It's really cool to see that people are susceptible to it. It helps with writing a lot to turn off one language and then go to another. "

" Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment. "

" It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer. "

" No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera. "

" California feels like Colombia but with less threats. I don't have to be constantly looking over my shoulder. "

" I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself. "

" Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person. "

" Every time I go out to do shows, it just becomes a little bit more real and a little bit more full, so I'm excited just to see it hit its next level. "

" The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me. "

" The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that, being able to also call Colombia my home, it was such an important part of my introduction as an artist, too, because it's such a big part of my life as a human being. "