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 don’t have any control over what actually happens except that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I’m there. That’s all that matters.
More SZA Quotes
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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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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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I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
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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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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 love cuffing season. It’s a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.
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No one sets an impossible beauty standard like ya own mama lmao.
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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 wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.
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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’m very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.
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Pain plus love and time = power.
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I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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God forever working harder than satan.
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