I was born in St. Louis, but I’m from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It’s very small. It’s quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
SZAMy mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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I’ve been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I’m free enough to execute new things vocally on stage and give my best performance possible.
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I don’t have a primary doctor, a primary hairstylist, a primary anything. I don’t even have a primary address! Everything is just whenever I can find one.
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We’re changing little girls’ lives across the world, and we didn’t even know what we were doing when we started.
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I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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Searchin for peace be like fishing for water.
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Blessed beyond measure to be with people who inspire me and have a vision beyond my wildest dreams.
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When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I’ve had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
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Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. SZA
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When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
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I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
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It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
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I hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
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I make bad decisions frequently. They’re fun.
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Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.
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