Choose yourself or lose yourself.
KEHLANII 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.
More Kehlani Quotes
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We can be your distraction.
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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 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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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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I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
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Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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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’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 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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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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Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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Focused on fire. Bringing the heat.
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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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Yes, you are like the sun so always shine bright.
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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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