SZA Quotes

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

I just like doing things from my own head.

At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.