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.
SZAI was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
More SZA Quotes
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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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People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it’s interesting to me. I’m just making music.
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I was a funky kid.
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Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
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I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
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Everything I love I over do.
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Only break the rules baby or whatever Ja said.
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My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you’ve ever met. They’re very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.
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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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I make bad decisions frequently. They’re fun.
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I have a really strong gluten allergy, and I’m pretty lactose-intolerant, like, in a big way, but I love cheese.
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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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Mental health and family above all things. Period.
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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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You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.
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Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.
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I always used to be like, ‘I don’t need to meditate.’ And it’s not true.
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Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.
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I think we all do: I think we wonder if we’re supposed to be here if we’re doing the right thing if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.
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I do a lot of strange things.
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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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I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
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Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.
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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.
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I definitely get inspiration from the ‘gram. I mean, Instagram is Google, essentially. I love looking at pictures of beautiful women.
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I don’t think I’m inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be a feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy, thing. And I’m very drawn to female energy, but I don’t really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it.
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