Quotes from Janelle Monae


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I love the mystery behind things.


I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.


I've cried over string arrangements.


My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.


Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.


Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.


I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.


It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.


Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.


When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.


I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.


I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.


I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.


I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.


I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.


I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.


There are months when I'm on a plane every day!


When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.


Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.


People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.