People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it’s interesting to me. I’m just making music.
SZAI feel like when you say ‘activist,’ you have to have so much clarity, and I don’t always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I’m trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.
More SZA Quotes
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God forever working harder than satan.
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I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it’s so affecting that I can’t recover from it.
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I do a lot of strange things.
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When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I’ve had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
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In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate, I realized, ‘Oh I’m my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don’t mind.’
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I just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I’m super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.
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I will be feeling morbid and joyful at the same time.
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Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.
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Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.
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I don’t enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
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I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
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We’re changing little girls’ lives across the world, and we didn’t even know what we were doing when we started.
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You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.
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I hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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I don’t have any control over what actually happens except that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I’m there. That’s all that matters.
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