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.

- Tinashe

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

- Tinashe

I was in my first movie when I was five. I just loved to entertain and put on a show.

- Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

- Tinashe

It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.

- Tinashe

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.

- Tinashe

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

- Tinashe

My tunnel vision work ethic is very hard to come by, I believe. I have had an unwavering faith in myself and my career for as long as I can remember.

- Tinashe

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

- Tinashe

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

- Tinashe

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

- Tinashe

Because everybody always encouraged me to sing, I assumed that I wasn't bad at it. It felt like it was obvious what I was going to pursue. I thought I was good for as long as I can remember.

- Tinashe

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.

- Tinashe

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

- Tinashe

It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.

- Tinashe

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.

- Tinashe

The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak English, but they still know the lyrics. That's a trip.

- Tinashe

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.

- Tinashe

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

- Tinashe

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!'

- Tinashe