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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I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
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When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
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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.
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Kicked myself out the algorithm.
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Pain plus love and time = power.
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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
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I’m a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I’m actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I’m in my own head a lot. It’s hard and really discouraging.
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My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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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 always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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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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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
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I learned everything the hard way – like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.
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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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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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My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
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Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.
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I’m very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.
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Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
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I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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I 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.
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I do a lot of strange things.
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I think we all do: I think we wonder if we’re supposed to be here if we’re doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.
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I was a funky kid.
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