Quotes from Keri Hilson


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I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.


Timbaland's so wishy-washy sometimes - he'll hate a song at first and then love it, and then maybe go back to not liking it as much as something else.


Really, I'm the type of girl, and I know other girls who are the types of girls who it's not about the chain, it's not about the car, not about the house or this, that, and the other that you think are impressing me. It's really the intellect. It's really stimulating my mind.


I think the sophomore curse happens when you change every bit of yourself. Though my hair is blonde now, sonically it's still the same girl; conceptually it's still the same girl.


I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.


I know as a consumer I want a story. I want a defining - I don't want just an album full of singles. I want to get to know the artist beyond what everyone else can hear on the radio.


Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.


When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.


Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!


My favorite drugstore product is Clean and Clear makeup removing cleanser. It gets the makeup off in one wash - not three or four.


My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.


Most things I go through I have to write about.


I've learned to duplicate my beauty regimen from drug store products.


I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.


I love the water; I love to swim.


We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.


I don't want to live like a prisoner.


I don't have a beef with any female artist.


I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.


Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.