Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Banks

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Jillian Rose Banks, known mononymously as Banks, is an American singer, songwriter, and poet. Following the release of two extended plays, Fall Over and London, in 2013, Banks released her debut album, Goddess, on September 5, 2014, to positive reviews from contemporary music critics. It reached number 12 on the US Billboard 200, while its most successful single, "Beggin for Thread", was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Her second studio album, The Altar, was released on September 30, 2016, to a similar positive reception, becoming her second top 20 album in the United States. Her third album, III, was released on July 12, 2019. It became her most critically acclaimed release to date and peaked at number 21 on the Billboard 200, as well as number 3 on the Top Albums Sales chart.

American - Musician | Born: June 16, 1988

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I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.

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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.

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Social media overwhelms me.

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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

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I feel more comfortable being confrontational and authoritative. It's important for women in this business.

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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.

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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

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Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

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When I'm in show mode, I can't even think about putting on makeup; I just have to be centered.

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I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.

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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

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It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

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There are definitely a lot of creative people I want to work with. I wanna work with Drake!

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Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?

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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

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L.A. is a really good home base. I've grown up here, and so sometimes I have wanderlust even though I tour. You think it would be cured by touring, but sometimes I feel like I want to be somewhere else.

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I haven't even had to learn, but it's just this natural thing to be able to express any emotion I have through the tone of my voice.

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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

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I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth.

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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

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I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable. Sometimes I want to feel a little sexier and more composed.

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I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.

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I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

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I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.

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I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.

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A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.

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My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.

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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

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The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel spicy as heck.

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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.

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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.

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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

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I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.

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I like wearing oils. Perfume makes me nauseous sometimes. It's too strong.

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Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it.

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Femininity can be a powerful thing.

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There's no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It's all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.

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I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.

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I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

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I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.

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People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

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Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

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I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

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Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.

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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

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My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

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My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something.

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I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

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It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.

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Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Banks

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