“My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.”

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.

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.’

I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was in my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.

No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.

On Halloween, because we don’t celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.

As long as you’re being honest and there’s the intention in what you’re doing, then I think that energy permeates your field and becomes like a homing signal for other people with like energies.

It’s so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I’m not incredibly passionate about.

I love food, so having a lot of food allergies now and just having a really sensitive body, it forces me to be very mindful and conscious and eat when I’m hungry, not just when I’m bored, and just really slow down. Everything in moderation. , SZA quotes on food

I definitely get inspiration from the ‘gram. I mean, Instagram is Google, essentially. I love looking at pictures of beautiful women.

I don’t have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don’t even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one.

I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.

I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.

I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.

I love classical jazz.

You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.

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.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that’s not right, all the strings should be off.

It’s always about the music, never about anything else.

I don’t really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days – thats a long time for me.

I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’

I think of music as a menu. I can’t eat the same thing every day.

We’re musicians. We make music for a living. It’s that simple. Nothing else matters.