Vocally, I’m always listening to Brandy. As a writer, I’m always listening to India Arie and Drake.
KEHLANII ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
More Kehlani Quotes
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Focused on fire. Bringing the heat.
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Love is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.
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My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.
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New flame, I’m blowin out matches.
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If my eyebrows are cool, if my eyeliner is popping, if I’m moisturized, then I can pretty much wear whatever I want. I think if your hair and your face are together, I think it’s pretty much polished!.
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I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I’ve realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn’t make you give up half of yourself.
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There is nothing I would trade in this world for being a mommy.
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I ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
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Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it’s not – it’s someone else’s. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it’s who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.
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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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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 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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I really hate finding out people that show love really be talking crazy behind the scenes. Bitch buck up and hate me with your chest.
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Choose yourself or lose yourself.
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