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SZA

I don’t have a background in music, and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I’m gonna get lost.
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Attention Lost Music Myself Time
Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. SZA
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Accomplishment Grow Up Music
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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Freedom Myself Possible Reason
I just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I’m super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.
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Connection Feeling Music Myself People Thankful Yourself
I’m a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I’m actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I’m in my own head a lot. It’s hard and really discouraging.
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Courage Myself Spiritual Worth
I don’t enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
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Empty Feeling Enjoyment Myself
There’s something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It’s like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
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Different Father Grow Up Live Pride Protection Religion Weird
I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it’s so affecting that I can’t recover from it.
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Feeling Listen Music Myself Recovery Thinking
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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Art Creation Force Imagination Myself Parents Time Writing Yourself
Nothing feels better than switching wigs for no reason.
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Feeling Hairs Instagram Captions Reason
I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
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Excellence Fear Myself Success
Wearing a hijab never made me feel any more conservative – it made me feel safe. Then, after 9/11, I became the butt of a joke on the playground, so I stopped wearing it. Kids can be really cruel when you’re the only black girl in your Girl Scout troop.
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Black Feeling Myself Safety
No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.
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Beautiful Funny Impossible Mom
I don’t have any control over what actually happens except that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I’m there. That’s all that matters.
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Control Myself Philosophy Willing Worth
Only break the rules baby or whatever Ja said.
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Break Rule
My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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Music Myself People Space Touch
It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
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Inspirational People Start Trust Young Yourself
My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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Eat Mom Myself Old
I love cuffing season. It’s a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.
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Inspirational Love Myself Season
God forever working harder than satan.
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Evil Forever God
My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
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Control Myself
Just tryna eat pasta and mind my business.
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Attitude Business Eat Mindset
I hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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Explanation Myself Struggle
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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Doctor Hairs Myself Preparation
I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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Myself Spiritual True
I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was in my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.
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Fashion Live Myself
I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
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Feeling Music Myself

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