A biography for Solange Knowleshasn’t been written yet.
“I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything.”
“I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.”
“My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.”
“I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby.”
“When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.”
“I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.”
“I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.”
“I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.”
“I stand for people who are firm in their journey.”
“My ultimate beauty icon is Diana Ross.”
“I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives.”
“My earliest love, which was sort of an obsession, actually, was Nas. I was in seventh grade, I believe, when 'Nastradamus' was out, and I took it pretty far.”
“The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.”
“Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.”
“When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.”
“Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.”
“Whether it be a red eyeliner or a graphic line on the crease of my lids, I'm more attracted to the ideas of something interesting than being 'pretty.'”
“There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.”
“Anytime fashion and music go hand-in-hand and it really is an organic fit, it's amazing.”
“I never borrowed clothes from Beyonce when we were growing up. But now my style is a little more tame and hers is a little more adventurous.”