Little Simz

I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.

I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual.

I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.

I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do.

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.

I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.

I like it when people have good flow, but I also like it when people actually say stuff. Because sometimes that's a very good distraction, like, to have impeccable flow, but you're saying a lot without saying anything.