Saint Jhn

“So when I was a kid in Guyana, I would run barefoot in the street and bathe in the rain. That was a real thing. Picture that, showers falling from the sky in the middle of the Caribbean.”

“I use Cetaphil face wash. It's really simple. Nothing super fancy. I just feel like it needs to clean your face and not add or take away from anything.”

“My journey is where I'm at right? It's the monopoly board of my life, and I'm making my rounds.”

“I make these songs for me. That's the truth. I make them because that's what I want to hear. Long before you ever hear it, believe that I'm in a Porsche with the top off listening to it.”

“I had a good start. I did a record with Beyonce. I did a record with Lenny Kravitz. I put out my second collection of music and then my second collection of clothes.”

“I think it's challenging trying to describe my sound. Not because I'm making some experimental martian music, but because it's a little broader. The things that you've heard are only fragments and small fractions of what you're going to hear.”

“I make music in terms of collections.”

“When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.”

“I'm a Brooklyn kid. So for me, rap and all the other forms of music that I participate in, we catch a win? It's a win for everybody.”

“I didn't want to tell my story through my words in someone else's voice.”

“There's no real music scene in Guyana, but there's a music space. So there's no scene because there's no economy for it, but there's a space because everything that spills over dancehall and reggae, spills over.”

“I don't know how to be comfortable. Comfort is uncomfortable to me so I push myself to new places.”

“I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she could muster.”

“I just wanted people to hear the sounds and fall in love and not overthink it. You get a 12-year-old and you'll get a 55-year-old standing next to each other in the audience. They're from different eras of music but they'll feel the same way.”

“I was never afraid to try female products. I didn't believe in those gender identities as it related to products.”

“There's no better feeling than when I go outside and I see the faces of people who paid their money just to see me, that tells me the music is going where it's supposed to and that's encouraging.”

“I say I design music. I can imagine it and sort of picture it. I think about all of the things I do in the world and say that I'm designing it because it takes the same skill set.”

“People use the word success often, I don't use that word.”

“I don't want to give you the opportunity to find a box to put me in, figure it out later. When the records come out song by song, you'll hear it and get to determine how you want to classify me.”

“Every dollar I spend, I'm looking to fall in love. I have a few things I already love, but I'm always thinking that I can do better. I'm always on the hunt.”