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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.

SZA

I wasn’t popular in high school; I had no friends.
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Alone Friendship Myself
When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
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Art Beautiful Care Darkness Skin Time Yourself
I’m a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I’m actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I’m in my own head a lot. It’s hard and really discouraging.
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Courage Myself Spiritual Worth
I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.
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Born Character Myself
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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Different Father Food Myself Teaching Walk
I was born in St. Louis, but I’m from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It’s very small. It’s quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
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Born Complete Different Myself Place
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.
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Art Creation Force Imagination Myself Parents Time Writing Yourself
I 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.
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Control Myself Philosophy Willing Worth
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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Herself Home Ideas Language Mom Myself
I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.
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Excellence Journey Myself Worth
I made this and have too much to say about it.
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Attitude Myself
My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.
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Music Myself People Space Touch
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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Honesty Spiritual Yourself
You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.
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Body Care Respect Self Love Yourself
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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Choice Feminism Myself Thinking
I just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I’m super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.
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Connection Feeling Music Myself People Thankful Yourself

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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