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

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

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

My ultimate beauty icon is Diana Ross.

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

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

I had my own little quirks as a child.

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

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

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

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.

Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

I stand for people who are firm in their journey.

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.

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.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.

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'd rather live in the U.S. than Europe.

I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby.

There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.

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

Both my parents are first-generation success stories.

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

Colors and prints are part of my style.

I have so many friends who are designers of color.

In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that.

Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.

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

I try to transition my energy into just having fun.

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

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

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

It's always been my dream to look like Mariah Carey in my photos with a microphone. I don't know how she does it. When she sings, she looks perfect.

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

You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.

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.

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

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

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.

My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.

I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.'

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

You get educated by traveling.

I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.

Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for.

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

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

Motherhood is such an evolving journey.

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.

I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.

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.

Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

I'm super-sensitive when it comes to my sister. I've been known to snap off a little bit behind her.

I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

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

If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.

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 have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.

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

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

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

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.

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

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.

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.

My sister and I truly are best friends.

At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.

The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.

I'm such a Southern girl.

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

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

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

If a piece makes you look good and makes it easier to get dressed, it wins.

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

Whether it be a red eyeliner or a graphic line on the crease of my lids, I'm more attracted to the ideas of something interesting than being 'pretty.'

When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.

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

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

Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.

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