Explore Quotes by Janelle Monae

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.

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.

My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.

Donald Trump is trying to build a wall. I'm trying to burn walls down and build more bridges.

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.

I love the mystery behind things.

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

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

There are months when I'm on a plane every day!

I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

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.

I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.