Everybody is on the ‘I’ll cross the bridge when it comes’ conversation. I don’t think anybody truly knows.
KEHLANIThere’s girls that grew up like me and even worse, and they need to know that there is someone out there that can give them hope with my music. It’s about inspiring people and helping people.
More Kehlani Quotes
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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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Love my small team, proud of our sweet beginnings, every step feels so rewarding.
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Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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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’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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Make-up sex, as treacherous as it can be, becomes this fun and playful thing versus this really intense thing. To me the song feels playful.
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New flame, I’m blowin out matches.
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Motherhood, building character one day at a time.
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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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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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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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My favorite person that I had been running everything by doesn’t even make music, but he is a genius. It’s Kerby [Jean-Raymond] from Pyer Moss. -Kehlani
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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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