Janelle Monae Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I've cried over string arrangements.”

“Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.”

“My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.”

“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.”

“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 don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.”

“I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.”

“It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.”

“I love the mystery behind things.”

“I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.”