Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are. — Dawn Richard Best Copy Share Image
Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all. — Dawn Richard Appreciating Copy Share Image
R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed. — Dawn Richard Light Copy Share Image
Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does. — Dawn Richard Everyone Copy Share Image
'Redemption' is about understanding myself and not worrying about my relationship with the industry. — Dawn Richard Fear Copy Share Image
Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture. — Dawn Richard Always Copy Share Image
You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it. — Dawn Richard Find Copy Share Image
When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what… — Dawn Richard Beginning Copy Share Image
I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times,… — Dawn Richard Always Copy Share Image
A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But… — Dawn Richard Dark Copy Share Image
Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might… — Dawn Richard Dream Copy Share Image
I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is… — Dawn Richard Books Copy Share Image
I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a… — Dawn Richard Art Copy Share Image
I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an… — Dawn Richard Art Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and… — Dawn Richard Book Copy Share Image
When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he… — Dawn Richard College Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the… — Dawn Richard Art Copy Share Image
I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody… — Dawn Richard Always Copy Share Image
Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow… — Dawn Richard Biology Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground… — Dawn Richard Always Copy Share Image
I wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change. — Dawn Richard Change Copy Share Image
I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and… — Dawn Richard Like Copy Share Image
I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to… — Dawn Richard Big Copy Share Image
I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals,… — Dawn Richard Art Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have… — Dawn Richard Anything Copy Share Image
I connect so much with Peter Gabriel's sound because, to me, he always had that South African vibe. His drums were always… — Dawn Richard Big Copy Share Image
'Goldenheart' is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It's a… — Dawn Richard Battles Copy Share Image
I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed… — Dawn Richard Birth Copy Share Image
My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life,… — Dawn Richard Dad Copy Share Image
My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you… — Dawn Richard Kings Copy Share Image
I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I… — Dawn Richard Allowed Copy Share Image
The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't… — Dawn Richard Everybody Copy Share Image
How many people can say they had Anna Wintour on a record? Not even an album, just a mixtape? It's audacious, disrespectful,… — Dawn Richard Dirty Copy Share Image
Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to… — Dawn Richard Game Copy Share Image
I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I… — Dawn Richard American Copy Share Image
There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place. — Dawn Richard Being Copy Share Image
I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual. — Dawn Richard Knowing Copy Share Image
It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy. — Dawn Richard Bother Copy Share Image
