Quotes from Tinashe

It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

I really love 'Pocahontas.' Today I was watching 'Aladdin.' It's a classic; you can't beat it.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

Dance has always just been an extension of music for me. It's about putting my music into motion. It's just another dimension that I tap into with my music that not many artists do anymore.

I love fashion. For me, it's always interesting because I like to be able to mix up different styles and different brands, kind of like how my music taste or personality is. There's lots of influences.

Fashion is an extension of expressing who you are. I love to entertain and put on a show. And that's definitely a part of that.

Because everybody always encouraged me to sing, I assumed that I wasn't bad at it. It felt like it was obvious what I was going to pursue. I thought I was good for as long as I can remember.

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

I want people to know that I'm a force to be reckoned with.

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

As a person, I have a lot of different sides to me, and I genuinely just embrace them. I don't think, 'Oh, I gotta put on my cool face now!'

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely feel like we don't have the time or energy to bother ourselves with the tribulations of nations near and far.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak English, but they still know the lyrics. That's a trip.

It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.