SZA Quotes

“I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that's just because I'm a Scorpio. Now I'm more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.”

“I was unpopular my whole life.”

“People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.”

“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.”

“My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.”

“I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging.”

“Sugar makes me feel crazy - like, makes my body hurt kind of a thing. I don't really eat fruit because it has a lot of sugar. I try not to eat a lot of red meat, but every now and again, I feel like I need iron or something - something that I'm missing.”

“So many people meet and become friends at my shows that didn't know each other before.”

“I've always wanted an office job so I can tell someone, "I'm going to take a long lunch," or "I'm out of the office." I don't know why, but I've always seen so much stability in clocking in.”

“Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'”

“I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj's 'Feeling Myself.'”

“I always wanted to be a Klingon princess. They were so pretty, and their hair was fire. My hair is Klingon, I feel like.”

“My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.”

“When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, 'How do you feel about feminism?' And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think and a little bit in between.”

“Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.”

“In one way, I want to heal people.”

“My parents wanted me to go to school.”

“I’ve kissed death a thousand times before”

“My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.”

“I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.”

“I love cuffing season. It's a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.”

“I was a funky kid.”

“If you stepped out of bounds, or you stepped out of your tumbling path and didn't stick it. By the time you're done, you can count your own damn deductibles to know what your score is about to be. But this is completely different, it's so subjective. There are so many variables that don't make sense. You can't quantify someone's emotional connection to what you feel.”

“I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.”

“I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey.”