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Me going to college was not an option.
We cannot afford to have lies in music.
Working with Rihanna has changed my life.
I have faith in the people. Honesty will prosper.
Opportunities don't always come dressed in neon colors.
I want my brand and Bibi Bourelly to represent honesty.
I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.
I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.
A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.
I'm out here living my dream. People are listening to my music.
Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.
Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.
Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.
I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.
I'm just trying to give the world something pure for a change. We'll see what happens.
At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don't set out to be like anyone else.
As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.
If I talk to a new guy, it's because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.
I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.
To the outside world, I was pretty bad at everything my whole life. People didn't credit me for my musicianship.
Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.
All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.
I just want to unify people. A crowd full of people singing one song... that doesn't derive from anything dishonest... It's someone's truth.
My dad raised me on everything from his music to Stevie Wonder to A Tribe Called Quest. I learned the 'Midnight Marauders' album in and out.
I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma's house, and we wrote a song called 'Girls' Rules.'
I can still feel unsure in myself, and l'm still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.
I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.
My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I've felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.
I just am really bad at making new friends - especially in the music industry, because they're not really real friends; they're just music industry friends.
My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.
The only thing I can control is myself. I can't control what anyone thinks about me, I can't control circumstance, I can't control the things that God controls.
People who are their own entity and aren't afraid to be who they are can move a nation. I believe the height of my career is going to be during the start of a revolution.
I love making music. I love that it's unstructured, that I get to go perform and play in front of people, to meet new people. I love to do the thing I'm best at every day.
A lot of senior artists say that they support women, but they have a machine of people behind them telling them to be that way. l don't think it's always true and genuine.
School, for me, was a really, genuinely hard thing. It was hard because l am an artist. You can't send an artist to a place where we learn at a mad slow pace sitting in a class.
Before I was working professionally, I would do YouTube covers. But as a creative person, it was really hard for me when I wasn't releasing my own music. That felt unnatural to me.
I was never necessarily conscious of my failures when I attempted something and it didn't work out, because I feel like I'm so in tune with my purpose I never necessarily acknowledge that.
The music industry is hard work, especially for women. A lot of people pit us against each other, comparing two body types or two women that are completely different. It's a lot of pressure.
One of the biggest challenges for me is that I'm still a human being. I'm a very imperfect human being. I'm very open about the fact that I'm not trying to pretend to be better than anyone else.
I want music to really unite people, more than the way a pop single unites people. I want to unite people through their pain and really change mentalities, change minds, and change perspectives.
A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.
I fell in love with singing, and through singing, I learned how to write songs. Anything you're consistent with and that you do all the time, you're gonna reap benefits off it at one point. You're not gonna get worse!
Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.
I got to meet Kanye West because we were shopping my artist deal, and I was interested in his label. When I met him, I played him all the records I had. He introduced me to Rihanna, and she recorded and cut some of those records.
My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.
I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get it out. It was all freestyle, which is how I write anyway. I don't write the words down; I scat and come up with the melody, then the lyrics.
A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
My songs are always on the tip of my tongue. It's always bubbling and brewing and about to come out. I can't really put it into words, but the best way to explain it is feeling like you constantly have some things on the tip of your tongue.