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" The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive. "

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" I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period. "

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

" R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed. "

" I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that. "

" There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs. "

" 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. "

" Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, 'So you're not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there's no studios there, baby girl.' "

" When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie. "

" Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture. "

" I write for myself. It's therapy. "

" I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me. "

" I'm not a very open person. "

" Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all. "

" It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy. "

" There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place. "

" I wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change. "

" 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. "

" My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series. "

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

" My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less. "

" I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control. "

" I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.' "

" Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless. "

" People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that. "

" I don't take myself too seriously. "