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.
KEHLANII 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.
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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I 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.
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I ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
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Everybody is on the ‘I’ll cross the bridge when it comes’ conversation. I don’t think anybody truly knows.
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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 feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
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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 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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Motherhood, building character one day at a time.
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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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Yes, you are like the sun so always shine bright.
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Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine.
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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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Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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