98 Quotes by Andra Day

I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.

My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.

I'm grateful for the fans who've been there from the beginning and am excited about how we've grown and how we've evolved now.

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.

'Rise Up' is definitely my baby. I think it was a gift because, you know, it's like God just spoke to me and wrote that song. It's very powerful.

I'm not going to put myself in a box.

My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.