My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in. SZA More Quotes by SZA More Quotes From SZA It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself. SZA yourselfyoutrustpeople I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically. SZA trymyselfthinkfishing Wearing a hijab never made me feel any more conservative - it made me feel safe. Then, after 9/11, I became the butt of a joke on the playground, so I stopped wearing it. Kids can be really cruel when you're the only black girl in your Girl Scout troop. SZA meyoublackgirl I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey. SZA likedamnjourneyworry We're changing little girls' lives across the world, and we didn't even know what we were doing when we started. SZA little-girlsdoingknowworld I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends. SZA no-friendsfriendshigh-schoolschool As long as you're being honest and there's intention in what you're doing, then I think that energy permeates your field and becomes like a homing signal for other people with like energies. SZA thinkyoulongpeople I feel like when you say 'activist,' you have to have so much clarity, and I don't always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I'm trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be. SZA help-othersyougodpeople Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level! SZA deepoutmeinstagram I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me. SZA hillmemomhair I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost. SZA daymeyoumusic I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike. SZA feelthoughtargumentmen In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realized, 'Oh I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind.' SZA memindworldschool Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me. SZA mei-canspeakmind I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons. SZA godwishpeopleway I do a lot of strange things. SZA lotthingsstrange-thingsstrange
