Dawn Angeliqué Richard Quotes
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'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white.
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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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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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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 wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change.
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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 want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman?
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I write for myself. It's therapy.
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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 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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'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 like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
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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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'Redemption' is about understanding myself and not worrying about my relationship with the industry.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.
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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.