Gabriella Wilson Quotes

"As a person, I'm just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate."

"You can't avoid heartbreak, you can't avoid a lot of things. You have to go through them in order to become the person you're going to be."

"Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women."

"It's really powerful to have a strong base that genuinely loves the music and plays it over and over again."

"Whether you know who I am or not, you don't really know who I am."

"A lot of women need to know that they don't have to conform, they don't have to take no for an answer."

"People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?"

"I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me."

"I used to tell people when I was 15 or 16 that I'd never be that girl who goes through this, gets her heart broken, falls for this guy, but I ended up being her."

"Living my truth was very hard - I felt vulnerable."

"All the gossip - I'm not about that at all. The drama."

"I'm really about this women empowerment thing."

"I represent young black women, and I'm proud of that."

"I was playing music since I was 6 or 7. I felt that music was a given to me."

"I love BTS, their music is good, but they always support me."

"Good things take time."

"I'd rather have quality over quantity. It's about perfecting each song and making sure it's what you want to do. And then even with what I share it's all very strategic."

"I don't like to rush things."

"I'm a perfectionist and I want everything to be amazing every single show."

"People are gonna listen to the music whether or not I reveal myself."

"Being anonymous, I thought I'd just release the music and see what happens organically."

"I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me."

"As a black woman, I've always had to work hard to earn my respect as a musician - and as a young woman, too. As a writer, in certain sessions or certain rooms people think, 'Who's kid is this? Who's this little girl?' I've had to prove myself."

"Seeing people Tweet my lyrics and really feeling for me, feeling what I'm feeling... in one of my lyrics I sing about 'the watch I just got for you,' and some girl was like, 'Yes! I bought him a watch!' I can be happy because these women feel me."

"I was almost afraid to speak on the things I've dealt with as a woman."

"I really just wanted it to be about the music, and get away from, 'Who is she with?' and 'What is she wearing?'"

"I want people to feel the emotion, try to relate to the way that I look or want to be like me in the way that I'm living or whatever."

"Throughout my teenage years or whatever, I've been so uncomfortable, or I've made mistakes and I've felt like I'm the only one who has done that."

"Through the music, you can pretty much tell what I've been through and what I've accepted. And releasing it has made me realize I'm not alone in it, because of the reactions I've been getting."

"I don't want people to love my music because of what I look like or who I know or whatever."