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Trust your first instinct.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Firsts
Instinct
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God is the creator of all things.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
All Things
Creator
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I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Recording Artist
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My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Musical Theatre
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As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out whats in it.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Chef
Figures
Taste
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As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what's in it.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Chef
Taste
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Nourishment means a quality of life; consistency in the way we treat ourselves.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Quality
Consistency
Mean
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I cant live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Gum
Lips
Nails
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I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Breastfeeding
Brilliance
Feels
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I can't live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Cream
Gloss
Gum
Lip Gloss
Nail Polish
Polish
Lip
Nail
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For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Cute
Bossy
Tongue In Cheek
Life Me My Life
Control
Life Me Control
My Life
Saying
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My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Dip
Meat
Sauce
Supper
Would Be
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The truth I know for sure is that god is the creator of all things. And to not take ourselves too seriously.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
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I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Rapper
Always Never Fan
Phantom
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My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Audience
Bizarre
Huge
Rare
Scattered
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As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Music Black America
Segregated
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Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Important
Motherhood
Perspective
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I dont ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Heart
Shoes
Special
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I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Shoes
Special Place
They Say
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I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Chef
Enjoyed
Fall
Hobbies
Lifestyle
Littles
Studied
Love Food Chef
Hobby
Ended
Falling
Madly
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The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Oxymoron
Although
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The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Industry
Lying
Mirrors
Music Industry
Smoke
Smoke And Mirrors
Exactly
Exactly What
Hear
Tend
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In food, it's really, like, either you're right, or you're wrong. You know, people's taste buds kind of vary, but there's a technique. Either you do it right, or you don't.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Taste
Technique
Vary
Food People Know
Buds
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Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Attention Span
Art Great Music
Art Music Great
Dumber
Result
Span
Watered
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Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way I listen to music: put it all together, and it's a great party.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Quality
Certain
Flair
Party
Great Music Together
Music Great Together
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They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Heart
Pain
Realizing
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I've done a lot of different tours. For me, I try to go on tours that I think are gonna be fun. It's, like, grueling, and it's hard, and there's got to be an element to it that's exciting.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Done Me Fun
Tours
Element
Grueling
Me Fun Done
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After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Hate
Race
Business People Will
Record
Realise
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I love lifestyle stuff, I love housewares. I'm really a homebody, honestly. Anything to do with my kitchen, or my house, I'm all about it. I'm working on a sauce line, so that's kind of exciting. I'm a saucier.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Honestly
House
Kitchen
Lifestyle
Love Life
Sauce
Line
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Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Lord
Good Music Heart
Good Lord
Just Be
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The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Chef
Life Good Great
Album
Life Good Food
Sucked
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The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Patient
Robust
Tastes
Flavors
Layer
Slow
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I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Glitter
Me Day I Am
End Of The Day
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My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Concerned
Private School
Traveled
Life Time Mom
Private
Well-Balanced
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I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Break
Creating
Culinary
Culinary School
Music Business
Needed
Business Music World
Entire
Entire World
Turned
Wheel
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There's a point where you think, 'What else will I do if I don't do music?' It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Fire
Identity
Music Food Me
Powerful Thing
Right Back
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Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Evil
Female
Mean
People
Strong Female
Strong Women
Ugly
Utilizing
God Always Me
God Me People
Bikini
Cover
Wearing
Ideal
Magazine
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As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Children
Meals
Mum
Survived
Cook
Correct
Exactly
Gadget
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There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Perfect
Please
Pop Stars
Stars
Trying
Time Myself Sometimes
Allowed
Category
Star
Difference
Happen
Masses
Occasion
Pop
Pop Star
Suck
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In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Closest
Pregnant
All My Life
Validating
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Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Catering
Survival
Cook
Cultivate
Helped
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