Quotes from Gabriella Wilson

People are gonna listen to the music whether or not I reveal myself.

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

I don't like to rush things.

When I was a little bitty kid, I was listening to the stuff my parents were listening to. My mom was a huge Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige fan. My dad had a cover band that I sang with, and he loved Parliament, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton, the blues, James Brown.

My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.

I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me.

I'm a perfectionist and I want everything to be amazing every single show.

I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.

Living my truth was very hard - I felt vulnerable.

I always say that my music is my diary. It's very personal to me.

I went to a Buddy Guy concert when I was, like, seven years old.

A lot of women need to know that they don't have to conform, they don't have to take no for an answer.

The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that space and creating, doing what I love, making art.

We live in an era of social media. We care more about looks, popularity and followers than about real music. And I wanted to get away from that.

It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

People do things on Instagram and put on a front and try to live a life that they may not really want to live, or don't truly believe in. And that's the life that they portray. That's not the real them. We all have to be more aware of what is that's really happening inside. Are we really standing for what we believe in?

I was almost afraid to speak on the things I've dealt with as a woman.

To live your truth and sing your truth, that defines success.

Sometimes I'll just go on my piano and just start playing what I'm feeling. It all depends on what I'm feeling at the moment.

My parents have very different tastes. They exposed me to so many different things. I represent both sides.

People at school knew I sang and that this was what I was gonna do, but I was pretty private and low-key.

I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

I go to my mom's house and she'll make me do the dishes or clean up.

It's one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music. And that's what the goal was for me in my teenage years. I had to find myself.