Janelle Monáe.

I’ve Always Wanted People to Ask Questions About the Music. 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. I Appreciate That as a Writer Because Sometimes the Mystery, When It’s Gone, Is Not as Interesting. I Love the Mystery Behind Things.

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.

I’ve Never Viewed Myself as Just a Musician or Singer. I’m a Storyteller Who Wants to Tell Untold, Meaningful, Universal Stories in Unforgettable Ways. I Want to Do It All, Study It All and Find My Place in It.

We Have to Do Something About Gun Laws. and We Also Have to Do Something About Police Brutality Towards African American People. We Need More Allies. People Need to Continue to Speak Out About the Way African American People Are Being Treated. an Injustice to One Black Man or Woman Is an Injustice to Everybody.

My Grandmother Had 11 Children and Although We Didn’t Have a Whole Lot of Money, What We Did Have Was a Lot of Love. My Grandmother Was the Matriarch. If You Didn’t Have a Place to Stay, If You Needed Food, If You Were Just Coming Out of Jail or Rehab, You Went to Her. Watching Her in Our Family and Our Wider Community Was What Inspired Me and Still Does.

I Think There’s a Lack of Diversity. People Think That We’re All Monolithic and It’s Hard for Young Aspiring Girls, Who Don’t Necessarily Want to Sell Sex and Strictly Sing Crappy R&B Songs. They Need to Understand There’s a Different Blueprint That You Can Create. I Think It’s Absolutely Necessary for the Balance of the Universe That There Are Other Representations and a Different Perspective of the Woman.

I Only Date Androids. That’s Great, They Can Claim Me as Well as the Straight Community, as Well as Androids. I Speak About Androids Because I Think the Android Represents the New ‘Other’. You Can Compare It to Being a Lesbian or Being a Gay Man or Being a Black Woman … What I Want Is for People Who Feel Oppressed or Feel Like the ‘Other’ to Connect with the Music and to Feel Like, ‘She Represents Who I Am’.

I Don’t Allow Myself to Get Lazy, Believing That I’ve Made It. I Always Work Hard. It’s in My DNA. Both My Parents Were Janitors. I’m a Big Believer in Turning Nothing into Something.

I’m Not into Politics Actually, I’m Really Not.

That’s the Great Thing About Being an Artist. Your Job Is to Comfort, Your Job Is to Be the Voice, Your Job Is to Bring Awareness, Your Job Is to Be a Rebel, Your Job Is to Start a Revolution.