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One thing, parents: you need to realize is you've got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You're the parent. Why don't you monitor what your child wears? Ariana Grande didn't sign on to be a role model.
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Music is my heart.
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Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.
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The record business sucks!
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A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.
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I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.
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I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.
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I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.
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'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.
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I don't care about Donald Trump. I mean, God is my president. So I just feel sorry for people it affects, but I don't care about him.
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At the end of the day we feel the same; we all hurt.
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I've worked in the studio with a lot of young girls, and they'll go, 'Oh, the label is telling me to take off my clothes, and I don't feel comfortable.' Well if you don't feel comfortable, don't do it.
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I want to live. I didn't have time to die.
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I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.
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I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.
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The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me.
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Everything happens the way it's supposed to because it's just like cavemen - you evolve and grow and learn.
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'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.