SZA Quotes

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SZA

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 8, 1990

I'm very into details, so I watch movies just for the details.

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I listen to Stevie Nicks.

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So many people meet and become friends at my shows that didn't know each other before.

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Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level!

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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 Modest Mouse.

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In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realized, 'Oh I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind.'

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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 love folk. I love rap.

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I was unpopular my whole life.

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Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.

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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 don't listen to my music if I'm not making it.

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I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.

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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 just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I'm super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.

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I wasn't one of those girls who sang at church.

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I've fried my hair off. I've shaved my hair off. I've done it all.

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When I think of Afropunk, I think of the best of the best. I think of, like, D'Angelo.

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When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, 'How do you feel about feminism?' And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think and a little bit in between.

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