Quotes from Santigold

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

Politics are wack - it's mostly about the characters instead of the issues, like how religion is about religion instead of spirituality.

I hate musicals, especially film musicals.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

Oh my God, I love doing acting.

The reason I make music is so that I can influence people and inspire people, but I also want to make music that I feel happy about and that I feel is good. The challenge, which is why it's worth keeping going, is to constantly strive to figure out where the meeting place is.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

I'm the pickiest eater ever.