I know for a fact I've put in the same amount of hours as every up-and-coming male rapper right now, if not more. I'm a feminist with regard to my music and the music industry.

Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

In music today, people are against females. We don't have that empowerment anymore. We don't have that voice.

When people listen to artists, and you turn on the radio, it's a lot of gimmicks. And that's real. So I take it like there's nobody keeping it honest and truthful no more, especially as far as young teenagers and females.

I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.

I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.