Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Saweetie - Page 2

I always wanted to bring something new to the table, and make clothes for women where they feel beautiful.

Something will come to me in the middle of the day, and I'll Voice Note it so I don't forget how I felt when the idea came about. I can hear the feeling I had when I first recorded it.

If you're really listening there are alot of hidden messages in my songs.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

I know a beat is good for me when I can just start rapping. It's usually hard for me to do that.

But it's hard to support yourself from music when nobody knows you.

I think because I went to school and because I'm a student, I'm so open and I'm a sponge, and I just wanna learn everything to make sure everything is perfect.

I'm the only person who stands in my way, whether I finish a song or if I'm, you know, struggling. So, I see myself as my own competitor.

I welcome criticism. I come from a - I wouldn't say mean, but you've got to have tough skin to be in my family.

I'm not really into trends. I do like high fashion. I love my Chanel and my Louis, but I love my Forever 21 too.

That's what's most annoying - when people in this industry act like they don't know me. And they say it in a way where you can just feel that it's shade.

It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I'm collaborating with other artists, the more I realize being in the studio is about catching a vibe.

Y'all should be happy for me. It's funny, compared to my peers, my catalog isn't even that big, but I'm still getting a lot of notoriety because my songs do really well. I'm working hard and minding my own business and trying to do something I'm super passionate about.

I wish I could be more carefree. I grew up fast.

I feel like music is, you know, made to inspire, to heal, and to cope with. So, I hope that when my fans, or even just people who stumble across my music, I hope they get some type of feeling from it.

I used to only like writing with pen and paper, but because I travel so much, I started to lose the paper.

I like my visuals to feel like movies.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

We all want to be identified as someone cool, and I have struggled with repping where I'm from and my heritage before. It's part of growing pains. But when people see me being proud of what I am - and they are what I am too - it makes them proud. That's why I try to represent my Asian and my black side.

When you're a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school...it inspired me to keep going.

Freestyling helps me portray the emotion that I'm feeling right there instead of writing it at home and having to add to it.

You have to be unapologetically yourself. Once I was able to be proud of myself, it came across in my music really clearly.

I was working three jobs and going to school full time. I was really unhappy and I told myself, You are not this girl. This sounds corny but I would tell myself, You are an Icy Girl. I'm a confident person, but that was the first time I experienced insecurity and low self-esteem.

Fashion has always been important to me. I think style is important and what I love about my style is it's all based on my mood.

I finally decided to give music my all. If it didn't work out and I had to move home, fine. I had to give it 100% first.

I have my Icy brand, so one day when I do have the time I'll create my own fashion line.

I encountered producers who wanted to hang out after we worked, and when I refused, they wouldn't let me come back and work again... I would've have way more opportunities if I had succumbed. But it never felt right. I always felt like I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to compromise my morals.