Santigold Quotes

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.

To me, I don’t think a song’s complete unless it’s got a great variety of different textures.

Oh my God, I love doing acting.

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.

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.

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 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.

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’ve always been an artist who‘s about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.

Every art I do is a collage.

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 hate musicals, especially film musicals.

Politics are wack – it’s mostly about the characters instead of the issues, like how religion is about religion instead of spirituality.

I love pop music, and I love when music is accessible.

I wrote and recorded ‘Outside the War‘ and ‘Run from the Races‘ while I was nine months pregnant.

I’m the pickiest eater ever.

I’ve been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done.

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 love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you’d never think of.

There’s so many different kinds of songs that could be pop songs. I don’t think pop songs should sound the same.

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.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

It’s always cathartic for me to write music.

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.