Dawn Angeliqué Richard Quotes
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I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.
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A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.
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Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting.
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I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
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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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How many people can say they had Anna Wintour on a record? Not even an album, just a mixtape? It's audacious, disrespectful, and I feel like it's a little bit raw, and that's what Dirty Money is.
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'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white.
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I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.
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My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome - I've been working with him for years now.
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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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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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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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I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage.
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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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When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose.
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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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Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless.
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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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'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.
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There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.
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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 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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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 write for myself. It's therapy.