I like when pop is still good music; that's what I like.
— Santigold
It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.
I'm trying so hard to do something that means something and has integrity and cares about talent.
Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.
The social media thing is insane: the constant engagement with the public, not even just your fans. It's not really about the music; it's about how you can be seen.
To me, I don't think a song's complete unless it's got a great variety of different textures.
I love comedy, I love comedy... I think I'm funny!
I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the time, they're about the things weighing on my heart that I want people to think about.
Politics are wack - it's mostly about the characters instead of the issues, like how religion is about religion instead of spirituality.
I hate musicals, especially film musicals.
I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.
Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!
So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.
There's so many different kinds of songs that could be pop songs. I don't think pop songs should sound the same.
Around 2008 was a really special time culturally. There were a lot of cool things going on in music, in fashion, politically. It was a really hopeful time and a really creative time.
I'm the pickiest eater ever.
The reason I make music is so that I can influence people and inspire people, but I also want to make music that I feel happy about and that I feel is good. The challenge, which is why it's worth keeping going, is to constantly strive to figure out where the meeting place is.
I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.
Sometimes when you're an artist, you need to be in your own head; you need to stay in it to be able to get to a good place.
Oh my God, I love doing acting.
People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.
I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.
I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.
But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.
I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.
I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.
Every art I do is a collage.
I'm terrible at social media, and it sucks for me, because I know I have fans. But if you go by my Instagram, you would think, 'No one listens to her music!' It's not fair. My Instagram is not my music.
I feel like David Byrne is a great example of someone who is always in the 'now' moment of music and finding reasons to be excited and always seeing what's special about it.
I feel like my music has so many different things going on. I've always worked with many different producers. And a lot of times, each of them has a different thing that I really love about what they do.
When I go with different producers, and they've thought about what they want to do, I think they feel a little bit more free, because they know almost any sound will work on my record if we pull it together properly - so they don't feel so limited.
I wrote and recorded 'Outside the War' and 'Run from the Races' while I was nine months pregnant.
It's always cathartic for me to write music.
I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.
My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.
I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.
I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.
