I'd rather have quality over quantity. It's about perfecting each song and making sure it's what you want to do. And then even with what I share it's all very strategic.
As a person, I'm just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate.
Some people, they make these assumptions before they even listen to the music.
I go to my mom's house and she'll make me do the dishes or clean up.
We live in an era of social media. We care more about looks, popularity and followers than about real music. And I wanted to get away from that.
It's a great thing to hear people putting me up to this standard and putting me on this pedestal and expecting greatness from me, but at the end of the day, I'm just trying to be a better me as an artist musically.
I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.
A lot of women need to know that they don't have to conform, they don't have to take no for an answer.
I like to pair clothes or accessories that wouldn't usually go together.
I always feel like we focus too much on image and the flashiness of what it means to be an artist.
To live your truth and sing your truth, that defines success.
It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.
I think people often tend to listen to music with their eyes and not their ears, and I just wanted my work to shine, and to be able to convey my message without imagery taking away from that.
I'm a sneaker girl, but I like to make comfort fancy.
I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me.
As a young woman, I experienced high school and heartbreak, and the music I started to write was a little bit more poetic, and more inspired by spoken word. The real raw emotional things that sit in the back of our minds, that you were afraid to say? That's how I started to write my music. And that's how 'H.E.R. Volume One' came about.
Sometimes it's all about hype, and I didn't want hype.
I never really thought of myself as someone who was gifted.
I love BTS, their music is good, but they always support me.
I just love music, and that's what I want people to see and respect.
