Especially when I’m nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
SZAI’ve always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn’t let me.
More SZA Quotes
-
-
I’m very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.
SZA -
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.
SZA -
I made this and have too much to say about it.
SZA -
I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
SZA -
I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I’m grateful for that.
SZA -
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.
SZA -
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.
SZA -
It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.
SZA -
Blessed beyond measure to be with people who inspire me and have a vision beyond my wildest dreams.
SZA -
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.
SZA -
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.
SZA -
Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
SZA -
I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
SZA -
I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.
SZA -
I don’t listen to my own music, so to me, it’s awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn’t connect with everyone. I’m more appreciative than anything. SZA
SZA