I’ve always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn’t let me.
SZAWhen 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.
More SZA Quotes
-
-
I have a really strong gluten allergy, and I’m pretty lactose-intolerant, like, in a big way, but I love cheese.
SZA -
Every season is my season.
SZA -
I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
SZA -
I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj’s ‘Feeling Myself.’
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 -
I love folk. I love rap.
SZA -
I love cuffing season. It’s a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.
SZA -
I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that’s just because I’m a Scorpio. Now I’m more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.
SZA -
My mom didn’t let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.
SZA -
I don’t enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
SZA -
I’m very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.
SZA -
Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.
SZA -
Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.
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 -
Nothing feels better than switching wigs for no reason.
SZA