The reason I make music is so that I can influence people and inspire people, but I also want to make music that I feel happy about and that I feel is good. The challenge, which is why it's worth keeping going, is to constantly strive to figure out where the meeting place is.

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My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

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So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

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The reason I make music is so that I can influence people and inspire people, but I also want to make music that I feel happy about and that I feel is good. The challenge, which is why it's worth keeping going, is to constantly strive to figure out where the meeting place is.

Santigold

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

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Around 2008 was a really special time culturally. There were a lot of cool things going on in music, in fashion, politically. It was a really hopeful time and a really creative time.

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People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

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I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

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I wrote and recorded 'Outside the War' and 'Run from the Races' while I was nine months pregnant.

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I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

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Every art I do is a collage.

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When I go with different producers, and they've thought about what they want to do, I think they feel a little bit more free, because they know almost any sound will work on my record if we pull it together properly - so they don't feel so limited.

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I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.

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I love comedy, I love comedy... I think I'm funny!

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To me, I don't think a song's complete unless it's got a great variety of different textures.

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But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.

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Oh my God, I love doing acting.

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I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

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It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

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Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!

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I like when pop is still good music; that's what I like.

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