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" Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting. "

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" Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball. "

" Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it. "

" My father's music is all I remember from my childhood. "

" Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music. "

" I don't really feel there's rules in my everyday wear. I kind of do whatever the hell I want to do. "

" I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be anything other than in that moment. "

" There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things. "

" My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb. "

" I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that. "

" Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong. "

" I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business. "

" I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman? "

" I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.' "

" I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane. "

" To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt. "

" I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual. "

" Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are. "

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" Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does. "

" I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual. "

" I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together. "

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" 'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself. "

" You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it. "

" When I look half naked on stage, it's not because I'm trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move. "

" 'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white. "

" 'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will. "

" When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose. "