If you don't believe in yourself, I don't think people will believe in you.
I'm a big believer in everything meant to be. If it didn't work out then, it's fine.
I don't really think much of any songs I put out like I know... I think they're good, that's why I'm putting them out. But like I don't ever try to expect anything, so even with 'Caroline' or 'Red Mercedes,' I just put them out and hope for the best and people kind of gravitate towards them and I guess that's pretty cool and that's a blessing.
I felt like an outsider in middle school. Horrible.
I hate conforming to what people expect me to do.
It's a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.
I know that when it comes to your friends, especially in the music industry, we work so much and do so much that we don't even really keep track of our days, or keep track of our health, or keep track of our mental health. Sometimes we just go astray.
Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.
When Prince and James Brown were doing live sessions... recording a band is not easy. It's all delicate, important stuff you want to make sure you're doing the right way.
Addressing politics in my music' is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That's not really me because at the end of the day, I wasn't a political science major and I wasn't educated in that sense so I hate when people talk about things they don't know anything about.
I really like Shake Shack burgers... I like In-N-Out a lot, but Shake Shack is just divine.
Trump as the president doesn't make sense to me.
Def Jam commented on one of my Instagram photos once, and all my friends me hit me up, like 'Yoooooo, you signed to Def Jam?'
What keeps me going or keeps me wanting to do more music is just knowing that I can provide for my family.
My music is colorful. The intention for it is to be good for whoever's listening to it, and my style is good for me.
Caroline' represents the handful of women I've met in my life that I would put genuine effort in.
I didn't want to release a song like 'Spice Girl' right after 'Caroline' because I didn't want another 'hit' kind of song.
That's just me as an artist. I say what needs to be said.
I just like wearing what I like and I can't tone it down.
Solange is just dope. I'm a huge fan.
