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" 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. "

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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. "

Dawn Richard

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now. "

" Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules. "

" 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 promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing. "

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

" I'm not a very open person. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

Dawn Richard

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