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.
KEHLANIThere is nothing I would trade in this world for being a mommy.
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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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I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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Stardom is a crazy thought. If that’s what my path is, then that’s where I’m excited to be headed towards.
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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 is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.
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I ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
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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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I’m a healthy eater, but I don’t consider Chick-fil-A fast food.
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You are anything but conventional, baby, did ya know?
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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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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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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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New flame, I’m blowin out matches.
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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 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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