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.
SZAI live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
More SZA Quotes
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I’ve been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I’m free enough to execute new things vocally on stage and give my best performance possible.
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Everything I love I over do.
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I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I’m grateful for that.
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I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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Just tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
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I was a funky kid.
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I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
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My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.
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I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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I don’t want to speak negativity into existence.
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I make bad decisions frequently. They’re fun.
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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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Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do, Give it some time. That’s the only way to get to know yourself.
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There’s something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It’s like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
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I made this and have too much to say about it.
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