Amine

“I really like Shake Shack burgers... I like In-N-Out a lot, but Shake Shack is just divine.”

“I just like wearing what I like and I can't tone it down.”

“What keeps me going or keeps me wanting to do more music is just knowing that I can provide for my family.”

“Caroline' represents the handful of women I've met in my life that I would put genuine effort in.”

“Addressing politics in my music' is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That's not really me because at the end of the day, I wasn't a political science major and I wasn't educated in that sense so I hate when people talk about things they don't know anything about.”

“It's a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.”

“I didn't want to release a song like 'Spice Girl' right after 'Caroline' because I didn't want another 'hit' kind of song.”

“My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.”

“That's just me as an artist. I say what needs to be said.”

“I felt like an outsider in middle school. Horrible.”

“I don't really think much of any songs I put out like I know... I think they're good, that's why I'm putting them out. But like I don't ever try to expect anything, so even with 'Caroline' or 'Red Mercedes,' I just put them out and hope for the best and people kind of gravitate towards them and I guess that's pretty cool and that's a blessing.”

“Just checking up on someone with a, 'Hey, how are you doing?' usually means the most to someone. I try my best to regularly check in with friends who are musicians just because I know we go through things where we feel like people only hit us up because they need something from us like a verse or a promo.”

“Trump as the president doesn't make sense to me.”

“Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.”

“As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.”

“I know that when it comes to your friends, especially in the music industry, we work so much and do so much that we don't even really keep track of our days, or keep track of our health, or keep track of our mental health. Sometimes we just go astray.”

“I don't really care how people see me in my natural state, in a comfortable state.”

“When Prince and James Brown were doing live sessions... recording a band is not easy. It's all delicate, important stuff you want to make sure you're doing the right way.”

“I loved growing up in Portland because I'm not from L.A. or New York or Chicago or some cool city... It was a very regular suburban life.”

“Solange is just dope. I'm a huge fan.”