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" When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed. "
Dawn Richard
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" Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are. "
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" My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now. "
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" Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture. "
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" Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it. "
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" I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals, by your choreography, by your dance. It's imperative as an artist. "
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" I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
Dawn Richard
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Hate
" It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy. "
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" I connect so much with Peter Gabriel's sound because, to me, he always had that South African vibe. His drums were always something to move to: it was almost like Calypso. I'm a big fan. "
Dawn Richard
Move
Big
Me
" 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. "
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School
Scholarship
Game
" I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas. "
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Destiny
Control
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Trying
Sexy
Naked
" I write for myself. It's therapy. "
Dawn Richard
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" I've had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, 'Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.' It's the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn't do it. "
Dawn Richard
People
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" I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please. "
Dawn Richard
Group
Wild
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" 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.' "
Dawn Richard
Line
American
Band
" 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. "
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Library
Cool
Me
" My father's music is all I remember from my childhood. "
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Father
Childhood
Remember
" My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb. "
Dawn Richard
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Uncle
Some
" 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. "
Dawn Richard
Lose
House
Homeless
" 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. "
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Team
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" 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. "
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Started
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" The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home. "
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You
" My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good. "
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Teacher
He
Music
" I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules. "
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Would
Personal
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