Zitat des Tages von Janelle Monae:
I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'
Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.
I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.
It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.
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.
When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.
I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.
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.
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.
Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.
I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.
I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that shows it off will be a distraction from the music. That's how my signature uniform, my tuxedo, came about. It's classic and timeless. You'll see me in black, white, and a pop of color on my lips. That pop adds a little magic.
I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.
I love the mystery behind things.
