A biography for India Ariehasn’t been written yet.
“I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?”
“Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.”
“I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.'”
“In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there.”
“It took me almost wanting to retire to realize that you need to ask for what you need. Everybody needs something different, but whatever it is you need, you need to ask for it and figure out how to get it.”
“I love my brownness.”
“I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.”
“I didn't even listen to Bob Marley until I was 17.”
“Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!'”
“It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.”
“Listening to 'Songs in the Key of Life' always puts me in a good mood.”
“It's important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody's is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that's the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door.”
“You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for.”
“Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like.”
“I always felt like - I mean, I was told, really - I couldn't go too far with the productions because it didn't appeal to black radio. It wasn't until I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do or I was going to quit that I empowered myself. I took my power back.”
“I am light. I am not my age, I am not my race; my soul inside is all light. I am light.”
“If I don't have the right clothes, I feel weird walking out; I don't feel comfortable in what I have on. I have different colors that I want to wear on different days because it makes me feel different.”
“I don't want the world to get any worse. I want to make it better.”
“I want my music to be a contribution, and I want the people who love me on Earth and in Heaven to be proud of who I am, and I want to be proud of myself, and I don't want to look back and say, 'Oh God, why did I say that?'”
“With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial.”