Words matter. These are the best Kehlani Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think my main two songs are ‘FWU’ and ‘Get Away.’ ‘FWU’ made a cool point because it came out right after Chris Brown’s ‘Loyal’ came out. I combated it with ‘FWU,’ a song that basically says, ‘These women are loyal.’
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.
It’s funny: I don’t listen to too much rap. I don’t listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it’s Ja Rule.
I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. I can accompany myself ’cause most songs are, like, four chords.
I think most people don’t know that I really write everything myself. No help. There’s nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don’t think I’m a singer. They think I’m a rapper.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.
My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just ’cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that’s obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.
When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the ’90s. It’s just what I would listen to and what I was singing when anybody asked me to sing for them.
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.
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.
Sex is biological, but gender is mental.
I’ve always been a very young person with a very old soul.
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.
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
I’m a healthy eater, but I don’t consider Chick-fil-A fast food.
