“I learned everything the hard way – like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.”

Nothing feels better than switching wigs for no reason.

How many thick black women are there singing whatever I’m singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can’t really judge someone else for judging me!

I love cuffing season. It’s a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.

I will be feeling morbid and joyful at the same time.

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.

Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it. SZA

Every day I pray to see myself the way God and others see me.

Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.

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.

I don’t enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.

Pain plus love and time = power.

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.

People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it’s interesting to me. I’m just making music.

Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do, Give it some time. That’s the only way to get to know yourself.

I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.

I’m very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.

If fire wasn’t bad enough the gods gave us love so if flames failed to burn us down we had each other still.

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.

God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.

If you have strong faith, your God will love you.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.