123 Quotes by Janelle Monae

It’s a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.

I love great music and if it doesn’t move me I don’t listen to it.

Everything is about balance. You can’t work, work, work, work without any play.

Part of what my music represents is to stand up and be the voice of those who feel like they are not heard and want to be treated with respect regardless of race, color, orientation – android, cyborg, whatever.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn’t focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I’m attracted to things that scare me, like ‘Psycho,’ my favorite Hitchcock movie.

Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don’t consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I’m sure you felt like that.

Even if it makes others comfortable, I will LOVE who I am.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love ‘We Are Young.’ I’ve heard it play at weddings. I’ve heard it in graduation parties. It’s a big idea and big song.