Ella Mai Quotes

Ella Mai

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 3, 1994

A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation.

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It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless.

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I like to leave things open to interpretation. But I also like to make a point. There's two meanings behind each EP title. With 'Time,' that was 'time to move on': you know, you've been in a bad situation; this is enough. But it was also time, in my life, for introducing myself, my first project I was putting out with Mustard. A new exciting time.

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I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn't until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do.

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A lot of people say 'Boo'd Up' reminds them of '90s R&B. It has that feeling, which is why I think people take to the song so much.

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I'm very big on feeling.

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I always felt like I could go to my mom and speak to her about anything. We have a great relationship.

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I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

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I feel like everyone has been in a bitter situation, regardless whether it's cheating or just not being over someone who is over you - you compare yourself to the next.

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Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love.

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Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

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Mustard saw my Instagram probably, like, August of 2015. He just reached out to me by DM on Instagram.

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I definitely believe that there are songs that, as artists, we don't know the full potential.

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As much as a lot of my music is very R&B, there's a bounce to it that obviously makes it easier to perform live. It's upbeat and uptempo.

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It's deeper than the music when it comes to me and Mustard. He's like a big brother, and I'm so thankful to have a mentor like him to advise me. Even though he gives me a lot of creative control, I always go to him like, 'Do you like this?' It's so cool that it's always a collaborative effort. He never makes me feel pressured or anything.

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When I went into high school, I don't know why - because I've been performing since I was little - but I think it was just the pressure of being somewhere so different, and I already stood out because I had an accent, and everyone always wanted you to talk, that I kind of shied away from singing a bit.

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L.A. is so slow. Everyone is so chill, and the weather, of course, makes everything better, but it's just a different vibe.

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A lot of 'Time' was actually about a friend's relationship and me seeing what she went through and how she felt.

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I think originality is something that's important and catches people's eye.

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There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

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