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" When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away. "

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" I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful. "

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

" 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. "

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" I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing. "

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

" 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 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 never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill. "

" 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. "

" Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music. "

" 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 like it when people have good flow, but I also like it when people actually say stuff. Because sometimes that's a very good distraction, like, to have impeccable flow, but you're saying a lot without saying anything. "

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" 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. "

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