When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they’d owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun. Dawn Richard Read Quote
When I look half naked on stage, it’s not because I’m trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move. Dawn Richard Read Quote
Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all. Dawn Richard Read Quote
I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together. Dawn Richard Read Quote
People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It’s comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It’s just not as linear as that. Dawn Richard Read Quote
You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you’ll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It’ll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I’m cool with that. Dawn Richard Read Quote
I’ve had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, ‘Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.’ It’s the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn’t do it. Dawn Richard Read Quote
You don’t need validation from other people. You’ve gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it. Dawn Richard Read Quote
I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage. Dawn Richard Read Quote
When my dad went to college to get his master’s from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie. Dawn Richard Read Quote
