Zitat des Tages von Keri Hilson:
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 always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.
It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.
I don't have a beef with any female artist.
Most things I go through I have to write about.
You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.
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.
There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.
I don't want to live like a prisoner.
My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
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.