Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.
From Janelle Monae
One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.
I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.
Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'
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