I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.
When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.
I don't really shop a lot. I order things online. When I travel, I'll get some pieces along the way.
From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.
When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.
I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.
I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.
