Tinashe

“I think, in general, more women need to be involved in music and in the industry - that's been an issue.”

“Part of the reason I fell in love with dance so early was because of people like Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, and Britney Spears. When they would dance onstage and in their videos, that was huge for me. I lived for that.”

“The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.”

“Dance has always just been an extension of music for me. It's about putting my music into motion. It's just another dimension that I tap into with my music that not many artists do anymore.”

“My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.”

“As a person, I have a lot of different sides to me, and I genuinely just embrace them. I don't think, 'Oh, I gotta put on my cool face now!'”

“To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.”

“The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.”

“The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people may not understand.”

“I really love 'Pocahontas.' Today I was watching 'Aladdin.' It's a classic; you can't beat it.”

“This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.”

“I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.”

“For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.”

“I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.”

“If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.”