Kali Uchis Quotes
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I don't really use any face products anymore because they make me break out. I like natural remedies. I usually put honey on my face. Sometimes, I put sugar in it so it's an exfoliant, too. I add raw coconut oil, which is good as a face wash and a moisturizer.
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When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.
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I think everybody needs to be more empathetic.
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We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.
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When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.
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Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person.
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I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects.
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When I start something, I have to finish it, and I'm a super perfectionist, too.
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As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.
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I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.
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I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
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My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.
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Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.
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The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me.
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I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it.
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Spanish is such an important language globally.
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I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.
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I'm just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music.
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My first relationship was from when I was about 15 to 19. My second relationship was kind of like a rebound, but also a really important part of my journey - he was very emotionally manipulative and just wanted me to be an accessory.
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I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.
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My dad's job was to manage apartment complexes, so when people would move out or when people would die or whatever, people left things in their apartments, he would always bring me home people's collection of music that they left behind. I was excited because I didn't really have money to go to the CD store all the time.
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As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.
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I'm a big Gorillaz fan.
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As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.