Jillian Rose Banks Quotes
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James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul.
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I like wearing oils. Perfume makes me nauseous sometimes. It's too strong.
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Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.
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I like a kind of dark, bronze-y brown smoky eye with maybe some mascara, some contouring and stuff, but I don't like wearing black or pinks. I like it more tonal.
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Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.
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I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.
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I have a memory of listening to Tracy Chapman and just being intrigued by her voice. Even as a young girl, I wanted to know more about her and her story. I felt I was learning about her through her music. That was a revelation to me.
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The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.
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I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.
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My approach to beauty is all about moods. If you want to feel sexy, if you want to feel feminine or, I don't know, boyish - it's all about how you feel at that point in time. My mood changes.
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My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.
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I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.
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I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.
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I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.
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It's a big thing in my music to highlight being human - being emotional and powerful, like a goddess.
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I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.
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Femininity can be a powerful thing.
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I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.
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I feel more comfortable being confrontational and authoritative. It's important for women in this business.
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My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.
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'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.
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Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.
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It's a powerful thing to be able to write a song. Even the least powerful feeling - like insecurity - that makes you feel weak when you experience it, when you write about it, you are powerful.
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Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it.