There were things that had been weighing heavy on me for quite some time. And I went into this hole, trying to work through some of these things so that I could be a better me and be a better mom to Julez and be a better wife and a better friend and a better sister.

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."