Dawn Angeliqué Richard Quotes
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I wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change.
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Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it.
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I've had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, 'Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.' It's the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn't do it.
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Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.
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I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.
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I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing.
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'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.
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I've grown so much in the music industry. From 'GoldenHeart,' it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With 'BlackHeart,' its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business.
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I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
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I connect so much with Peter Gabriel's sound because, to me, he always had that South African vibe. His drums were always something to move to: it was almost like Calypso. I'm a big fan.
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I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.'
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'Blackheart' was the moment for me to really open up and let people into the world that is me.
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When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.
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When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose.
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There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.
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I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.'
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It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy.
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I write for myself. It's therapy.
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Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.
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You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.
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I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.
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'Redemption' is about understanding myself and not worrying about my relationship with the industry.
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'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.
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I'm not a very open person.