Latest Jhene Aiko Quotes from Interviews

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• I never saw a ­distinction between a man and a woman. My ­grandparents and my mother were great examples of men and women, and they taught me ­equality. So I would fight with boys and wear my cousin's clothes. I would do whatever I wanted, and that's where I still stand today.

  Jhene Aiko

  Mother, Fighting, Boys

• If you look up in the night sky and see this light that's flashing colors, that's Sirius. It's a star system, and it looks like there's a party going on. What I like to believe in my dreams and imagination is, there's some of us on Earth that come from there, indigos and star seeds, who are hyper ­sensitive to feelings and ­seasons.

  Jhene Aiko

  Dream, Party, Believe

• With my career, everything I do is me. There's no one that handles telling me what I should be about or how I should dress or anything. I'm hands on with absolutely everything. When I'm writing a song, I'm already thinking of the visual for the song and I'm already thinking of what I'm going to wear in that visual and what I'm going to wear when I perform. It all goes hand in hand. Everything I do is just me expressing different sides of myself.

  Jhene Aiko

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

• I've always been very spiritual, since I was a very, very young child. The older I get, I'm reading more, I'm experiencing more, and so that's all reflected in all of my music. All of my fans are pretty familiar with me and my beliefs. It's all about connecting to yourself and sticking to your own spirituality.

  Jhene Aiko

  Spiritual, Children, Reading

  Source: www.elle.com

• I guess I just developed more of an interest to actually be a part of the design, picking out the fabric and just being more involved. I never really considered myself a fashion person, but then I just realized that fashion is just another way of self expression and that's pretty much what I'm most passionate about.

  Jhene Aiko

  Fashion, Design, Passionate

  Source: www.elle.com

• You're going to be waiting a long time before you start seeing money from it. Just really sit with yourself and think "Why do I want to be a singer?" like really think it out and if you realize that you really need to stick with then then be really focused and have good intentions on why you're doing it and it will work out.

  Jhene Aiko

  Thinking, Work Out, Long

  Source: earstyle.net

• I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision like "Oh I want to be a singer", it was like I grew up around it, I was singing because it was just natural for me to sing.

  Jhene Aiko

  People, Decision, Singing

  Source: earstyle.net

• I think that's really really important, you can't get in the industry, because you want to make money because number one, I don't think money should be motivation for anything because I don't believe that it has any value.

  Jhene Aiko

  Motivation, Believe, Thinking

  Source: earstyle.net

• Everyday though, I'm just looking for like- I always ask people, What are you listening to? What sounds are good to you? Alot of people are in their car, in the club or on the internet looking and I just don't do any of that. Usually if I'm out and about it's because I have something to do, because I'm like a really big home body. If I'm at home, im watching Nickelodeon cartoons so sometimes I'm out of the loop with the cool music, but for sure I'm predicting that J.Cole is going to be good.

  Jhene Aiko

  Home, Car, People

  Source: earstyle.net

• I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

  Jhene Aiko

  Stuff, West, Knows

  Source: earstyle.net

• I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

  Jhene Aiko

  Selfish, People, Trying

  Source: earstyle.net

• When I find something good, I stick to it for like a month. I'm usually late on like other stuff. Kendrick Lamar, I can play that often.

  Jhene Aiko

  Play, Stuff, Months

  Source: earstyle.net

• I belong to the world.I'm in a relationship with the world.

  Jhene Aiko

  World

  Source: earstyle.net

• Sometimes I go and I'll look at people's comments and then responses, covers, choreography and fan videos and after a couple hours it's like, uhhh this is a little like...I'm like don't indulge in right now.

  Jhene Aiko

  Couple, Indulge In, People

  Source: earstyle.net

• Because people love music, I feel it's my responsibility to produce more of the music and to get it out to more people, so like I said, If the mainstream route does that without compromising me being happy as a person then that's something I'll do.

  Jhene Aiko

  Responsibility, People, Doe

  Source: earstyle.net

• I've been offered things from alot of different labels and stuff like that, but it's just like, it has to be perfect. I'm not going to sign my life away.

  Jhene Aiko

  Perfect, Different, Labels

  Source: earstyle.net

• I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

  Jhene Aiko

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: earstyle.net

• I just want to meet as many people as I can and talk with as many people as I can, but whatever allows me to do that then that's my main goal. It's just to understand as much as I can about life and how it happens.

  Jhene Aiko

  People, Goal, Want

  Source: earstyle.net

• Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that's always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from...it's great.

  Jhene Aiko

  Nice, World, Able

  Source: earstyle.net

• My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.

  Jhene Aiko

  Destiny, Goal, Going With The Flow

  Source: earstyle.net

• Me as a person...I'm really laid back, I'm really an on my own time type of person so its just kind of like if I have to compromise some of that for the mainstream success...to me its not really worth it. I just like to sing.

  Jhene Aiko

  Laid Back, Kind, Compromise

  Source: earstyle.net

• Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.

  Jhene Aiko

  Inspired

  Source: earstyle.net

• I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.

  Jhene Aiko

  Thinking, Singers, Touring

  Source: earstyle.net

• I know like the Wiz Khalifah one, got me excited because I like his music, and its almost like you know I can relate to his music, so I feel like dang if he listens to my stuff and thought it was good then maybe I'm as good as him, you know what I mean?

  Jhene Aiko

  Mean, Stuff, Wiz

  Source: earstyle.net

• I appreciate all the people that can respect and appreciate my music.

  Jhene Aiko

  People, Appreciate

  Source: earstyle.net