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" Singles are for people that want to chart - I'm measuring my success by how well I connect with people. "

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" I've worked really, really hard on my lyricism. "

" Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there. "

" I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance. "

" I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great. "

" I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it. "

" The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That's what I'm about. "

" I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do. "

" My mom raised me to be a strong person. "

" I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in. "

" I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it. "

" I don't dress to impress; I've never been that person. "

" I'm just a bit of a dreamer, and I get really in my thoughts. I get so deep with myself at times it's almost very scary. "

" I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself. "

" I want to be ambassador-like. I want to, you know, set examples, especially as a young black female. That, I think, is important, and I just want to be a bit of an example, you know. "

" I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that. "

" I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff. "

" In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out. "

" I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe. "

" I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me. "

" I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know? "

" When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write. "

" I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk. "

" I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual. "

" I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work. "

" I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box. "

" I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company. "

" Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever. "

" The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad. "

" I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow. "