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• ‟ I know my ticket is vulnerability. Most people point to some emotional experience, some hardship, some high or low when they talk about my music... a time when they need to feel those feelings more.

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• ‟ Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.

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• ‟ Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more rigid and conservative. And white people in the U.K. have more close proximity with black people and people of colour in general.

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• ‟ Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that's their album. I can't relate, because I've never made music in that way. I come from a culture of editing and remixing.

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• ‟ A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.

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• ‟ Fog and one blue light is all I need in life at the club. Just a dark room and loud music. I'm into that.

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• ‟ When it comes to melodies, production, and sound in pop music, people try to be formulaic and solely concerned with what's resonant in a way that is so cheap and ugly. It actually just devolves culture, ultimately.

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• ‟ I want to speak in the tradition of rhythm and blues and soul music, but also push how it's dressed and how it's delivered to the audience. And hopefully that gets embraced by as many people as possible, but the goal isn't necessarily to speak to everyone. The goal is to get it out as exact as it is in my head.

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• ‟ The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.

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• ‟ For those of us who make music together, I think it's important to realize that generosity on both sides is actually going to produce the biggest possibility.

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• ‟ I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.

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• ‟ There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.

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• ‟ After it became clear that I was not going to graduate, I had this moment where I was like, 'I need to not sulk. I need to pursue - at least try - to pursue music. But if I don't try, I'm going to be a really bitter middle-aged lady working in a cubicle.'

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• ‟ I'm pushing back against the white, misogynistic, heterosexual establishment in the music industry. Like, literally, in all its forms.

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• ‟ I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time.

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• ‟ My music sounds like one synergised thing, one message.

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