“I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.”

I performed in high school for Black History Month at a talent show, but besides that, I didn’t have the resources to perform so I spent my time as a teenager writing music.

New wrist new whip ride around dipped.

I grew up dying my hair with Kool-Aid. I used to switch my hair up every day just to make myself look and feel good.

Baddest bitch with a degree.

I enjoy the life I have now, but I also enjoy doing regular stuff. I can’t pull up to the club and stay outside no more. I can’t be at anybody’s table. A picture or video can go viral, and it can be misinterpreted.

I want to encourage the artists that haven’t made it that social media is the truth. I made it from Instagram to having a most-added song to radio.

If you’re really listening there are alot of hidden messages in my songs.

I went from being a hustler, working different jobs to renting rooms off Craigslist, and I just wasn’t happy.

A lot of women reach out to me and tell me my music has given them the courage and confidence to break up with not just any boyfriend, but an unhealthy relationship

It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I’m collaborating with other artists, the more I realize being in the studio is about catching a vibe.

Around the time that I was in high school, a lot of rappers were coming out with mixtapes of them rapping over other people’s instrumentals, specifically Young Money.

I want to encourage the artists that haven’t made it that social media is the truth.

Although I had the label of being the ‘pretty girl rapper with a lot of followers,’ I just broke the rules.

I like it to look natural, to be smooth, dewy glowy. I like my eyebrows to look nice and I love lip gloss. That’s essential to the Saweetie look.

What I love about my audience is it’s extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.

My schedule is very busy, but when I get time to sit and think about all the great things that have happened to me, it’s just mind-blowing.

The world and art are connected.

I’m trying very hard not to connect with people right now.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

When we wander, we reconnect with our inner selves.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.