Keri Hilson

“We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.”

“I don't want to live like a prisoner.”

“I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.”

“I've learned to duplicate my beauty regimen from drug store products.”

“Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else.”

“I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.”

“I'm born and raised in Georgia, so I have a lot of appreciation for hip-hop, but I want to be able to show the emotional side of me.”

“I know as a consumer I want a story. I want a defining - I don't want just an album full of singles. I want to get to know the artist beyond what everyone else can hear on the radio.”

“I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.”

“My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.”