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

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" I'm not a very open person. "

" I don't take myself too seriously. "

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

" 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 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.' "

" 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's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money. "

" '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. "

" 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 love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion. "

" I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there. "

" I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out. "

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

" I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix. "

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

" When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they'd owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun. "

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

" I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

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

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

" You don't know how far you can go until you push it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "