I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
KEHLANIVocally, I’m always listening to Brandy. As a writer, I’m always listening to India Arie and Drake.
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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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Love is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.
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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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Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it’s really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they’re creepy or not.
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You are anything but conventional, baby, did ya know?
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Motherhood, building character one day at a time.
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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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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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My lyrics are a complete 180 from what they used to be in terms of maturity. And I have a kid, so that changes everything.
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I’m a healthy eater, but I don’t consider Chick-fil-A fast food.
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Focused on fire. Bringing the heat.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say ‘he,’ or I’ll make songs about guys, and I say ‘she,’ or sometimes they’re exactly what they’re about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.
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We can be your distraction.
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I was writing with my homegirl who’s one of my favorite people to work with. We were just sitting in a studio and I said, I want to be able to talk about sex, but very specific kinds of sex.
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There’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.
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Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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Choose yourself or lose yourself.
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I hang out with the right people, my friends that I’ve had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family – just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.
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There is nothing I would trade in this world for being a mommy.
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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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Love my small team, proud of our sweet beginnings, every step feels so rewarding.
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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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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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