I ain’t the passenger I’m the pilot.
KEHLANII 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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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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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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Yes, you are like the sun so always shine bright.
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I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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Choose yourself or lose yourself.
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You are anything but conventional, baby, did ya know?
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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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Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
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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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Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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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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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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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 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 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 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.
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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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We can be your distraction.
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I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he’s put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.
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Motherhood, building character one day at a time.
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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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New flame, I’m blowin out matches.
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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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Love is sight, sight is love. Stay where you’re seen, it’s where you’re loved.
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I’m frazzled, but I’m good.
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