Latest Janelle Monae Quotes from Interviews

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• As a businesswoman you have to be open. I'm always open to listening and learning and considering. However, I don't look at business as anything other than a partnership. And in any partnership both parties need to leave the table happy.

  Janelle Monae

  Party, Listening, Partnership

  Source: feeds.glamour.com

• No matter if you wear a small amount of makeup, no makeup, or heavy makeup, as long as you feel beautiful internally and you're doing beautiful things for other people, and not just focusing on the exterior to make yourself happy, I think you should do what works for you. You should rock on.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: feeds.glamour.com

• You had to change who you were to become famous. I thought that for a very long time. Even after signing a record deal, and then eventually getting my own recording company, Wonderland Records, I had to say no to a lot of opportunities to become well known. If it didn't align with my values and if it didn't support the image I had created for myself, I'd pass.

  Janelle Monae

  Opportunity, Long, Support

  Source: feeds.glamour.com

• I hope women feel confident with themselves and realize that we don't all have to look alike or be the same size to be beautiful. I hope they feel like representing what it means to be an individual and to remain comfortable in your own skin.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Mean, Skins

  Source: feeds.glamour.com

• I'm not focused on being perfect. I like trial and error. You learn through uncomfortable experiences. And now I know what doesn't work for me, and I know what does.

  Janelle Monae

  Perfect, Uncomfortable, Focused

  Source: feeds.glamour.com

• I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

  Janelle Monae

  Thinking, Compassion, Race

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Politician

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Firsts, Humans

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

  Janelle Monae

  Thinking, Giving, Needs

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'". Interview with Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are representing something unique, something fresh. I am just so excited about their careers.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Unique, Careers

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'". Interview with Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• I'm really thankful to have my own record label. I've always looked up to people like Madonna when she launched Maverick Records. Even Jay Z and Sean "Puffy" Combs, who's a mentor and also gave me a shot when I was an independent artist in Atlanta. He came to my show, and he said, "I just want people to know about you."

  Janelle Monae

  Independent, Artist, Atlanta

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'". Interview with Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• I'm always thinking about young people first when I'm writing music. Whenever I can reach that young person and inspire them to go after their own dreams, start their own movement just like I did with Wondaland. Starting their own tribe and showing people that we are not all the same, we're not all monolithic. I think that's what it's all about for me.

  Janelle Monae

  Dream, Writing, Thinking About You

  Source: www.cnn.com

• I'm always thinking about that young girl or young boy who doesn't quite know if their music, their messaging, their imaging, their voice is going to pop, if people are going to understand them. So I represent the other and those who feel like they don't even want to be normal. They embrace the things that make them unique.

  Janelle Monae

  Girl, Boys, Unique

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

  Janelle Monae

  Silence, Enemy, Sound

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, edition.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

  Janelle Monae

  Black And White, Color, Class

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, edition.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

• It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.

  Janelle Monae

  Oil, Feet, Laughing

  Source: www.spin.com

• 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.

  Janelle Monae

  Voice, Race, Color

  "Going Androidgenous With Janelle Monáe". Interview with Victoria Rossi, www.motherjones.com. November 29, 2010.

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

  Janelle Monae

  Moving, Great Music, Ifs

  "Going Androidgenous With Janelle Monáe". Interview with Victoria Rossi, www.motherjones.com. November 29, 2010.

• Things might not go as planned, but at the end of the day it’s up to me to take those risks and do what I love most. And I don’t owe anybody an explanation. My journey is my journey.

  Janelle Monae

  Journey, Risk, The End Of The Day

  "Going Androidgenous With Janelle Monáe". Interview with Victoria Rossi, www.motherjones.com. November 29, 2010.

• 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.

  Janelle Monae

  People, Different, Androids

  "Janelle Monáe on The Electric Lady and Bo Diddley". Interview with Eric Thurm, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2013.

• There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think that it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people...and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior.

  Janelle Monae

  Thinking, Rights, Years

  "Janelle Monáe on The Electric Lady and Bo Diddley". Interview with Eric Thurm, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2013.