Quotes by Janelle Monae

About Janelle Monae:

Janelle Monáe Robinson is an American musical recording artist signed to Bad Boy Records, Wondaland Arts Society, and Atlantic Records. After making a mark with her first unofficial studio album, The Audition, she debuted publicly with a conceptual EP titled Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase), which peaked at number 115 on the Billboard 200 in the United States.
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I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

Janelle Monae

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.

Janelle Monae

Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

Janelle Monae

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.

Janelle Monae

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

Janelle Monae

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

Janelle Monae

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.

Janelle Monae

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.

Janelle Monae

I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that shows it off will be a distraction from the music. That's how my signature uniform, my tuxedo, came about. It's classic and timeless. You'll se...

Janelle Monae

I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.

Janelle Monae

Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.

Janelle Monae

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.

Janelle Monae

I love the mystery behind things.

Janelle Monae

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.

Janelle Monae

I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.

Janelle Monae

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

Janelle Monae

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

Janelle Monae

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

Janelle Monae

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

Janelle Monae

I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

Janelle Monae

Author Bio

  • NameJanelle Monae
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer
  • BornDecember 4, 1985
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Composer