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

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" As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face. "

" 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. "

" I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican. "

" I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me. "

" I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me. "

" Diplo kept asking me who styled my 'What They Say' video. I was like, 'No, that's just my clothes!' "

" Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing. "

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

" The constant pressure to be the perfect, ideal female - there's no such thing. "

" If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing. "

" Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't really use any face products anymore because they make me break out. I like natural remedies. I usually put honey on my face. Sometimes, I put sugar in it so it's an exfoliant, too. I add raw coconut oil, which is good as a face wash and a moisturizer. "

" I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people. "

" I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good. "

" I just know what I want for myself. "

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

" I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia. "

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

" 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. "