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Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.
Janelle Monae
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Janelle Monae
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 1
Actor
Ballet Dancer
Chanteuse
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Kansas City
Kansas
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I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.
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I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.
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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.
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I was made to believe there's something wrong with me.
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Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes me sexy. I like skirts and dresses just like everyone else, but I had a message I needed to put out there. It was up to me to show people and young girls there was another way.
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Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.
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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.
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One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
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I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.
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I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?
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I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
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I've cried over string arrangements.
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I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.
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Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
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Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.
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I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.
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I love the mystery behind things.
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I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.
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Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
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I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.
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