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What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.

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I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.
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I think it's OK that everyone's not real heavy and wordy and heady.
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I managed because of my mother. I managed because I'm strong. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you just do. So many people have been abused, it's not rare, it's a very common human experience, and we survive. Also, my music plays a big role in my thriving. Having an outlet, it really makes a difference.
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I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.
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I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen
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I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.
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You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.
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What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool.
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The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.
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The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.
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I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.
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When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.
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Over the years, I was doing what I loved to do, which is my music. But it was always a bit distorted, because I was doing the music in the way other people around me were telling me it should be done.
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There is one relationship I was in that I learned a lot from. I learned a lot from the situation about myself and about relationships and about love, about how to relate to people, about forgiveness and the stuff that comes with being in a relationship.
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You're beautiful like a flower More valuable than a diamond You are powerful like a fire... There is nothing in the world that you cannot do When you believe in you, who are beautiful Yeah you, who are brilliant Yeah you, who are powerful Yeah you, who are resilient
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You hear people sing songs about when they really can't stand anyone anymore or you hear people sing songs about when they really love someone and they really love them.
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Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree
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There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.
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A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.
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Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.
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