For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.
DUA LIPAFor a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.
DUA LIPAI always told myself never to have a plan B – I feel like that’s also one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing now because I just never really rested until I got here.
DUA LIPAI started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, ‘Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.’
DUA LIPAMy gang sign is the love heart.
DUA LIPAIt’s all fun and games until your shoe strap falls down.
DUA LIPAI’ll bring you flowers in the pouring rain.
DUA LIPAI’m so obsessed with Cardi B. I do nothing but sit and watch her Instagram videos.
DUA LIPAI think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It’s no longer the genre that dictates it.
DUA LIPAIf you see a fairy tell her I called.
DUA LIPAIf you got a candle – blow it and various other random things.
DUA LIPAI always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.
DUA LIPAI like how powerful fashion makes me feel. I live for that grungy-prissy juxtaposition that Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Drew Barrymore wore in the ’90s.
DUA LIPAMy parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on.
DUA LIPAIf I can’t dance to it I don’t want it.
DUA LIPARedbone’ from Childish Gambino – that is my ideal summer tune. It’s already gone and done its thing, but I want it to live on forever.
DUA LIPAEvery time you achieve something, you want to go after what’s next. I’d like to see my own shows grow and someday be a headliner, fill up stadiums.
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