Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
SZAIn one way, I want to heal people.
More SZA Quotes
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Every day I grapple between ‘I’m going to get married’ and ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.’
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Everything I love I over do.
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I do a lot of strange things.
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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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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 was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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It’s so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I’m not incredibly passionate about.
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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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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
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I don’t feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I’ve had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.
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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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I don’t have a background in music, and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I’m gonna get lost.
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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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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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