Janelle Monae
Janelle Monae
Janelle Monáe Robinson, known professionally as Janelle Monáe, is an American musical recording artist, actress, model signed to Bad Boy Records, Wondaland Arts Society, and Atlantic Records. After making a mark with her first unofficial studio album, The Audition, she publicly debuted with a conceptual EP titled Metropolis: Suite I, which peaked at number 115 on the Billboard 200 in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth1 December 1985
CityKansas City, KS
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?
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.
I love the mystery behind things.
I was made to believe there's something wrong with me,
I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.
I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.
Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.
Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that.
It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.
I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.
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.
I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.