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.

I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.

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."

You get educated by traveling.

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

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.