It's really special to have a niece because I have a son, so I get to have a little girl, too.
I never borrowed clothes from Beyonce when we were growing up. But now my style is a little more tame and hers is a little more adventurous.
I'm really good at telling people 'no.'
With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.
I'm super-sensitive when it comes to my sister. I've been known to snap off a little bit behind her.
People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.
Colors and prints are part of my style.
When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.
I really wanted people just to get to know Solange on my first album, just to establish Solange's sound, just to establish Solange's personality.
Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.
It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'
I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.
I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything.
There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.
I'm trying to cut down my cursing.
I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.
I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.
At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.
Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings.
