Choose yourself or lose yourself.
KEHLANIYes, you are like the sun so always shine bright.
More Kehlani Quotes
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I always wanted to date me.
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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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My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just ’cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that’s obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.
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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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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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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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When you look at me, you can’t really tell what I am, but I’m black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.
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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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Love my small team, proud of our sweet beginnings, every step feels so rewarding.
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New flame, I’m blowin out matches.
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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 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’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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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 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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There is nothing I would trade in this world for being a mommy.
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Focused on fire. Bringing the heat.
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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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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 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 feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
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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 ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
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It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine.
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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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