As far as creation goes, you just really have to not overthink and just create and be confident. If you think it's tight, then the world is going to think it's tight. Kehlani More Quotes by Kehlani More Quotes From Kehlani I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself. Kehlani yourself you love-is love Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability. Kehlani things me success happiness I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself. Kehlani feel myself enjoy people I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. Couldn't even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I'm paying my own bills. I'm about to move my mama in with me at 19. I'm on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape. Kehlani me homeless mama my-own I'm a healthy eater, but I don't consider Chick-fil-A fast food. Kehlani fast fast-food healthy food My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother. Kehlani things me dad mother Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not. Kehlani feel me time people I've always been a very young person with a very old soul. Kehlani old person always soul Sex is biological, but gender is mental. Kehlani biological mental gender sex There's girls that grew up like me and even worse, and they need to know that there is someone out there that can give them hope with my music. It's about inspiring people and helping people. Kehlani me music hope people My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first. Kehlani go understand process brain I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it's not - it's someone else's. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it's who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it. Kehlani someone think music sometimes If my eyebrows are cool, if my eyeliner is popping, if I'm moisturized, then I can pretty much wear whatever I want. I think if your hair and your face are together, I think it's pretty much polished! Kehlani face cool together hair When you look at me, you can't really tell what I am, but I'm black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino. Kehlani i-am me you black I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own. Kehlani parents myself me you If I was to have a reality show, it wouldn't be a show based on my personal life. I'd want it to showcase me and my girls on tour, like living life as a young artist, not exposing what goes on in my family situations. Kehlani me family life reality I want babies before I'm 25. I want to bring my babies on the road and bring them to concerts and raise them in the studio. Kehlani bring road concerts want I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he's put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B. Kehlani falling-in-love music remember love I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good. Kehlani good cool music art You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they naturally are singing like whatever they're hearing, because that's the only way you learned how to sing. So when I was growing up on Lauryn Hill, when I started singing her songs, I literally trained my voice to be able to do runs. Kehlani hill you singing voice