Stardom is a crazy thought. If that’s what my path is, then that’s where I’m excited to be headed towards.
KEHLANII went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. I couldn’t even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I’m paying my own bills. I’m about to move my mama in with me at 19. I’m on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.
More Kehlani Quotes
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I’m a healthy eater, but I don’t consider Chick-fil-A fast food.
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Vocally, I’m always listening to Brandy. As a writer, I’m always listening to India Arie and Drake.
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I’m frazzled, but I’m good.
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I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
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I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. Can accompany myself cause most songs are, like, four chords.
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It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine.
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There is nothing I would trade in this world for being a mommy.
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My pops passed when I was little. I didn’t have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn’t have my biological mother.
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I’m at that point where I was able to make a decision on if it was time to follow my goals that are bigger than music, which is service to the community.
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I was seeing the effects of what music can do — how it can be healing and bring people joy, but on the flip side, there was this ugliness. I saw the greed and the He-Mans that were willing to f*ck over children.
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When you look at me, you can’t really tell what I am, but I’m black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.
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I think most people don’t know that I really write everything myself. No help. There’s nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don’t think I’m a singer. They think I’m a rapper.
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It’s funny: I don’t listen to too much rap. I don’t listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it’s Ja Rule.
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Motherhood, building character one day at a time.
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As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it’s tight, then the world is going to think it’s tight.
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