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"Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow."
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"Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin."
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"There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots."
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Personal Development
"Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow."
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Personal Development
"There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing."
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"It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming."
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"The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl."
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"Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault."
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"I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water."
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"Underneath all the skin, we're all the same."
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"I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am."
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"But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party."
Mom
"A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it."
Success
"I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements."
Education
"My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart."
Heart
"I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave."
People
"My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in."
Mom
"I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together."
Work
"I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album."
Work
"Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra."
Now
"I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together."
Dance
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