It’s always interesting when you’re doing things yourself – getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It’s exciting. Dawn Richard Read Quote
Armor On’ explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you’ll hear this battle of, ‘I love you, no I don’t. I love you, I hate you.’ That’s what you’ll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself. Dawn Richard Read Quote
I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas. Dawn Richard Read Quote
The Red Era’ is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white. Dawn Richard Read Quote
There’s always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things. Dawn Richard Read Quote
I really got back to my New Orleans roots – my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I’m back there. Dawn Richard Read Quote
A lot of ‘Blackheart’ was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness – in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end. Dawn Richard Read Quote
My director, Monty Marsh, is really awesome – I’ve been working with him for years now. Dawn Richard Read Quote
When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn’t have our Grace Jones – Grace Jones was before my time. We didn’t really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars. Dawn Richard Read Quote