I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I could ever get is seeing women, especially black women, talk about what this album ['A Seat at the Table'] has done, the solace it has given them.

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."

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

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

So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.