Janelle Monae Quotes

I'm starting to find my own style.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

I choose to express myself.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

Fashion is one of those places in which, when you're wearing something that feels like a representation of you, it does create, in a matter of speaking, a space for you to exist. Even if it's just in a two-inch radius of where you are. It's a walking, personalized area in which you can live.

Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one's true self.

I don't really know if I am thought of as a style icon. I don't feel like that at all. Music comes first, but I also just enjoy being creative in whatever I'm doing, be it wearing clothes, making images, or performing.

What I do is all about expressing myself, whether it's music or the clothes I wear.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

You are the artist and the art.

When you really do feel like an alien, and you really do feel like a space creature, and you really do feel you want to experiment and dress up and be different every day, to find what looks best but never stick to one thing... Just the fact that that was offered to those kids during that time is pretty remarkable.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. That's why I love trying out new things.

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I believe a person's style is an expression of who you are - way more than dancing.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.