Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.
SZAI’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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My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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Everything I love I over do.
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Every day I grapple between ‘I’m going to get married’ and ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.’
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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I love folk. I love rap.
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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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Your energy told me what your mouth couldn’t.
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I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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Every day I pray to see myself the way God and others see me.
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I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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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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I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.
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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 don’t enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
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