Banks Quotes

"Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess."

"Femininity can be a powerful thing."

"It's a big thing in my music to highlight being human - being emotional and powerful, like a goddess."

"Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat."

"I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable. Sometimes I want to feel a little sexier and more composed."

"The song 'Stick'? That needed to be chunky and sexy. It's human. It's human to be the girl in 'Stick' and feel spicy as heck."

"Social media overwhelms me."

"Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am."

"I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen."

"Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it."

"I like feeling fresh and having really dewy skin. I like feeling moisturized and having a good brow."

"My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice."

"Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something."

"I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life."

"Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live."

"It's a powerful thing to be able to write a song. Even the least powerful feeling - like insecurity - that makes you feel weak when you experience it, when you write about it, you are powerful."

"I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good."

"I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in."

"Every human is so layered. And 'Brain,' that theme is about - I'm just such a sensitive person, and I can pick up people's energies."

"When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first."

"I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better."

"On tour, there's dry shampoo - I use the one by Bed Head."

"I like a kind of dark, bronze-y brown smoky eye with maybe some mascara, some contouring and stuff, but I don't like wearing black or pinks. I like it more tonal."

"I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy."

"I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person."

"Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life."

"The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life."

"I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful."

"One of my favorite things is to try delicious different fruits from different places, in Japan or other places that have different fruits you can't get in the States."

"When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before."