My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
SZAI 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 feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I’ve had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.
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I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
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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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Pain plus love and time = power.
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I make bad decisions frequently. They’re fun.
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My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.
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My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
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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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We’re changing little girls’ lives across the world, and we didn’t even know what we were doing when we started.
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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 will be feeling morbid and joyful at the same time.
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I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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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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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 live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I’m in it.
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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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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 love empowering women. I think it’s crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you’re playing yourself – I ride with whoever rides with me.
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I don’t want to speak negativity into existence.
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I’m very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.
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On Halloween, because we don’t celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.
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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.
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As long as you’re being honest and there’s the intention in what you’re doing, then I think that energy permeates your field and becomes like a homing signal for other people with like energies.
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I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
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I love folk. I love rap.
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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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