I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.

I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.

There's always competition in the world, but you don't have to be enemies. You can empower each other.

I'm more conscious about who I let into my heart, and I'm singing about it.

R&B was really prominent in the '90s, and we can all admit that it kind of fell off. But my generation is more in touch with our emotions - we're not afraid to show them. We're bringing that decade back.

Sometimes, people have issues, and you just wish sometimes that it could be good.

That's where people go wrong in the music industry: they get all these fancy things and think that they deserve them, but they really haven't done anything to earn them yet.

The day I do get my Roc Nation chain is going to be so much more valuable than if they gave it to me the day I signed. You have to earn it.

For the most part, I'm very into sweatpants and cute tops from streetwear brands like Supreme and Palace for a '90s tomboy vibe.

Being a brown girl, I like to wear colors that are similar to my skin tone, so I wear a lot of dark colors - never anything that's too bright.

One thing that I must do with every wash is deep condition. I have this theory in my head that it will make my hair really healthy, especially since I'm always keeping it in different styles.

When I was 16, I started to spend a lot of time in Soho and downtown New York and noticed everyone's style and the eclectic things people would wear. And that's when I started to experiment with things like my lipstick and mixing different kinds of pieces and, of course, my hair color.

I'm hoping that people will love the music, but at the same time, the most important thing to me is that I love the music.

I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.

The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.

I get nervous every single time. It doesn't matter if there're five people or five thousand. What I have noticed is that the more people there are, the less nervous I am. It's way harder to impress five people.

We all feel like we're alone, but as artists, we get to see firsthand from our fans that we're not. Hearing them scream the words to your songs is the most amazing feeling.

I'm obsessed with Minnie Riperton's voice: it's like a smooth river of ice cold strawberry milk.

You want to accomplish everything; there's no limits to what you want to do. You want to do movies. You want to do modeling. You want to be an entrepreneur - you want to enter every aspect of the entertainment business.

It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn't let someone else be the person to find it for you.

I thought that the music industry was going to be pretty easy - getting features and stuff - and everyone was going to be nice. But I realized that it's really, really hard to get features.

New York has definitely turned into more of, like, a hipster place.

When I'm in L.A., I kind of go crazy in the middle of the night when it's, like, completely quiet.