Andra Day Quotes
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I was always inundated with music, whether it be my mother's favorites like Fleetwood Mac and Carole King and the Carpenters, or my dad's jazz music.
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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
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I always loved music and was drawn to it and affected by it. But it wasn't until I got to San Diego that I started exploring music more.
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I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.
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I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body.
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I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
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My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.
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I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.
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I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
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I'm grateful for the fans who've been there from the beginning and am excited about how we've grown and how we've evolved now.
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I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.
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My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
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I style my hair so frequently that I need a really good conditioner to keep it moisturized.
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I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.
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As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.
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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
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I'm not going to put myself in a box.
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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
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I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.
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I didn't want to box it in or say this show caters to this type of person... I think the tide of music is changing. We don't have to worry about rules. We should just do what feels good.
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The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.
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I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.
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It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.
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When I'm not working, I still love bright colors and patterns, but I choose pieces that are much more casual - I call it my lazy pinup look.