I really keep my life very simple.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

I really keep my life very simple.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.

No boyfriend wants to see their girlfriend in a video with a big, handsome black dude feeding his fingers into her mouth, do they? But that concept is my expression, and boyfriends have to deal with that, don't they?

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.