Quotes from Little Simz

I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow.

I'm just a bit of a dreamer, and I get really in my thoughts. I get so deep with myself at times it's almost very scary.

Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff.

Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever.

I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.

I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in.

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.

When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write.

When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.

I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.

I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.

I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.

I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.

Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.

I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.

I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.