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Singles are for people that want to chart - I'm measuring my success by how well I connect with people.
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My sisters and my mum taught me how to be a woman: the way they carry themselves, the way they talk to people, the way they know how to put their foot down. They're not having any nonsense from no one. I can see traces of that in me.
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My mom raised me to be a strong person.
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I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.
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I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk.
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I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.
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Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music.
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I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?
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I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.
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I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.
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I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual.
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When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write.
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I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.
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In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.
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I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.
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I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself.
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I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do.
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I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.
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I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.
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I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.
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I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.
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I want to be ambassador-like. I want to, you know, set examples, especially as a young black female. That, I think, is important, and I just want to be a bit of an example, you know.
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I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.
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Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.