Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Solange Knowles - Page 2

I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.

I think it's really important for every mother to find their own way.

I can't take any credit for people dressing like me, you know?

I'm such a Southern girl.

When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.

My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

I have so many friends who are designers of color.

I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance.

My mom's best friend growing up was diagnosed with AIDS, and he basically raised me when my mom was launching her business. Although I didn't understand at the time what HIV or AIDS was, I knew that's what he passed away from.

I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything.

I had my own little quirks as a child.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

A lot of people don't know me as an artist.

I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

I'm really good at telling people 'no.'

I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.

Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings.

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off.

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

I never borrowed clothes from Beyonce when we were growing up. But now my style is a little more tame and hers is a little more adventurous.

For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.

The one thing I'm really excited about is that the Saint Heron shop is not grounded in just fashion and clothing. We have connected with artists and artisans in every landscape.

What's important is that my family and I are all good.

From a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be able to do my music but still be able to live a normal life.

Both my parents are first-generation success stories.

Anytime fashion and music go hand-in-hand and it really is an organic fit, it's amazing.

I stand for people who are firm in their journey.

I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.

If I have on a bright red lip, you'll rarely ever catch me with eyeshadow on. It's one or the other for me - pick one feature for the day and really focus on that.

My sound is Solange. It's definitely not Destiny's Child.

My son spends as much time with his dad as he does with me.

My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.

With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.

I really wanted people just to get to know Solange on my first album, just to establish Solange's sound, just to establish Solange's personality.

My earliest love, which was sort of an obsession, actually, was Nas. I was in seventh grade, I believe, when 'Nastradamus' was out, and I took it pretty far.

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

It's really special to have a niece because I have a son, so I get to have a little girl, too.

I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant "popular" to me it didn't define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.

I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it, then I'm not gonna do it anymore. I've promised myself that. I've written it down on paper and signed a contract.

I was working through a lot of challenges at every angle of my life, and a lot of self-doubt, a lot of pity-partying. And I think every woman in her twenties has been there - where it feels like no matter what you are doing to fight through the thing that is holding you back, nothing can fill that void.

Women face a lot of challenges every day - we have to stand firm in our walk and our intentions - but there are times when that weight feels too heavy, feels like a load that I just can't bear that day. I try to work through that in my art, whatever medium that might be. My live performance is based around the color red, and all the things that communicates as a woman to the world - fiery, really vocal, present, almost a kind of stubborn color - and redefining it as being very complex. Being able to express that complexity, I'm getting a lot better at that the older I've gotten.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I could ever get is seeing women, especially black women, talk about what this album ['A Seat at the Table'] has done, the solace it has given them.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.