“Iggy’ was my dog – he was named after Iggy Pop – and ‘Azalea’ is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.”

I’m irrational about all things creative and I’m always late!

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

First things first, I’m da realest.

My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It’s a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it – who’s white and won it many times – and they didn’t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.

I think that music is still art, even if it’s commercialised.

Anyone’s happier when they’re not being verbally abused all day long.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It’s weird.

At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change – that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

I’d known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

I naturally want to be provocative.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.

Music is art to me, and you don’t censor art. You don’t go into a museum and censor things.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.

We’re grown ass men, you don’t need to be falling all over the place.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.