A biography for Solange Knowleshasn’t been written yet.
“My sister and I truly are best friends.”
“Motherhood is such an evolving journey.”
“It's always been my dream to look like Mariah Carey in my photos with a microphone. I don't know how she does it. When she sings, she looks perfect.”
“I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.”
“I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.”
“With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.”
“I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.”
“Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.”
“I try to transition my energy into just having fun.”
“I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.”
“Opening Ceremony is my number one favorite place to shop here. It's the only place I'll shop in New York with my son. All of the sales people are so cool; the music is great; it's just like a big fun house, so he stays entertained.”
“In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.”
“I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.”
“I have so many friends who are designers of color.”
“If a piece makes you look good and makes it easier to get dressed, it wins.”
“My sound is Solange. It's definitely not Destiny's Child.”
“I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance.”
“Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings.”
“I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.”
“When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”