Quotes from Selah Louise Marley

I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really hard to go halfway. Like with modeling, for example, I kind of give up all creative control, and that's just that. But when it comes to my own personal art, I'm very O.C.D. I see something a very certain way.

I just want to show people that the best thing you could ever do for yourself is be yourself.

I'm learning to stop being scared.

My music is super vulnerable, raw, and intimate.

One day I was like, 'Mom, you wanna sign me at Sony?'

I feel like modeling can be a little surface.

My plan is to give myself the space and a platform to freely express my creativity.

My favorite subjects were astronomy, sociology, and gender studies. And I always loved math class; I have a thing for numbers. I played soccer freshman year and then realized I hate sweating, but looking back, I definitely should have kept up with sports.

I truly found myself beautiful and thought that I had the potential to model, so I always would do little poses in the mirror and things, but I never expected it to come to this.

Honestly, I need some type of tight piece of clothing in my closet. As weird as that sounds, I love to wear sweatpants and cargos, baggy clothes, so much.

My style is always different. Sometimes it's preppy, sometimes it's chic.

Alexander Wang has been one of my favorite designers since I was younger.

Sometimes I think about, 'What if I'm not the person everyone idealizes me to be? Maybe I'm just a regular old Joe. What if I can't live up to all these expectations? Maybe I'm just not who they think I am or who they want me to be.

Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.

People look at me, for example, and think I have this perfect lavish life, that it's lit all the time, when that's not true at all.

I really am a full-blown Scorpio. Whenever I look things up about my sign, it's like, Check, check, check: thoughtful, detailed, moody, stubborn, prideful, emotional.

I like Solange, old pictures of Naomi Campbell, Grace Jones. I love Rihanna.

I think Beyonce working to really empower and show the grace and beauty and intelligence in young black women is really beautiful.

I got handed all of these amazing opportunities, especially travel opportunities.

I love looking at pictures of nebulas and reading articles about black holes and dark matter - I always tie it into spirituality.

Those who love so hard, we question if our passion can ever truly be reciprocated.

My mother is a phenomenal woman, but when I was younger, I had this fear that I wouldn't be recognized for who I am.

I think that opening up on Twitter helps people see that there are things that I deal with that they can relate to. Maybe it's not exactly the same as having a famous mom, but maybe their dad puts pressure on them to be a doctor, and they don't want to be a doctor.

Singing is my favorite thing to do. One day, I hope to get signed to a record label.