I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least. Janelle Monae More Quotes by Janelle Monae More Quotes From Janelle Monae Part of what my music represents is to stand up and be the voice of those who feel like they are not heard and want to be treated with respect regardless of race, color, orientation - android, cyborg, whatever. Janelle Monae voice color race You cannot police me, so get off my areola Janelle Monae police I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly and honor and a gift: it opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out. Janelle Monae beautiful inspire believe One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique. Janelle Monae fashion inspiring beautiful I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by. Janelle Monae imagination inspire believe Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music. Janelle Monae hills wonder enemy 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. Janelle Monae song art thinking When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it. Janelle Monae leader responsibility world I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay? Janelle Monae parades scream dream I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way. Janelle Monae fearless crazy stories It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself. Janelle Monae disservice tiny bigs First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being. Janelle Monae humans artist firsts I was made to believe there's something wrong with me. Janelle Monae made believe Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play. Janelle Monae balance play inspirational I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system. Janelle Monae boost oil flying Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors. Janelle Monae orange color children The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded. Janelle Monae black-and-white color class I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be. Janelle Monae believer beautiful giving I'm always thinking about that young girl or young boy who doesn't quite know if their music, their messaging, their imaging, their voice is going to pop, if people are going to understand them. So I represent the other and those who feel like they don't even want to be normal. They embrace the things that make them unique. Janelle Monae girl unique boys Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that. Janelle Monae androids different people