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.
SZAOn 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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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 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
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I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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Pain plus love and time = power.
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How many thick black women are there singing whatever I’m singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can’t really judge someone else for judging me!
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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 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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I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was in my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.
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I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.
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I hate being outside more than I can explain. I really have debilitating anxiety.
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Especially when I’m nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
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My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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I’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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Rebirth. Entropy. Beauty. Chaos. Divine feminine.
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I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.
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