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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it. "

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

" You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a very open person. "

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

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

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

" When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars. "

" It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" How many people can say they had Anna Wintour on a record? Not even an album, just a mixtape? It's audacious, disrespectful, and I feel like it's a little bit raw, and that's what Dirty Money is. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it. "

" I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend. "