I think, more importantly, it's about who is your core team? Who are the people around you that are going to fight for you and make sure that's all protected?

I was curious because I hadn't really known anyone to do just that, so I would stop in on his sessions with his rapper friends, and then one day, I told Astro Raw "I'm looking to sing. He told me to try it out and then we made 'Treat Me Like Fire' and everything started."

We had spent a lot of time in London [with Lucas Goodman], which has been amazing, but also it was kind of a homecoming and we felt so surrounded by a specific community of people who are just so New York, so unapologetically themselves and so creative.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection.

Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.