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	I don't like to shop. It creates so much anxiety.   
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	I love when things that I'm involved in really matter and when people like me back and don't just think I'm corny.   
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	I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.   
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	I love Obama, and I just want to reiterate it again to everyone from every hilltop and every mountain: I love him!   
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	I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.   
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	It's interesting to all of a sudden be considered valuable.   
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	I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to.   
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	I'm very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.   
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	When you're, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don't really take the time to make you look beautiful.   
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	I wasn't one of those girls who sang at church.   
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	It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.   
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	Biochemical interactions are very interesting to me.   
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	I was unpopular my whole life.   
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	Wearing a hijab never made me feel any more conservative - it made me feel safe. Then, after 9/11, I became the butt of a joke on the playground, so I stopped wearing it. Kids can be really cruel when you're the only black girl in your Girl Scout troop.   
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	Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.   
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	I love empowering women. I think it's crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you're playing yourself - I ride with whoever rides with me.   
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	I love folk. I love rap.   
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	I love food, so having a lot of food allergies now and just having a really sensitive body, it forces me to be very mindful and conscious and eat when I'm hungry, not just when I'm bored, and just really slow down. Everything in moderation.   
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	I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.   
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	In one way, I want to heal people.   
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	Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.   
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	Listening to Alabama Shakes made me less self-conscious about my voice.   
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	I've been known to wear pajamas onstage for the sole reason of wanting to make sure I'm free enough to execute new things vocally onstage and give my best performance possible.   
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	I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.   
