Jhene Aiko Best Quotes & Sayings

You have got to lose your mind just to find your peace of mind — Jhene Aiko

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of? — Jhene Aiko

I think that's really really important, you can't get in the industry, because you want to make money because number one, I don't think money should be motivation for anything because I don't believe that it has any value. — Jhene Aiko

Cause nothing really is and everything really isn't. — Jhene Aiko

Yeah, I mean I'm a water sign. I'm a Pisces. — Jhene Aiko

Just be yourself and wear deodorant. — Jhene Aiko

I've been offered things from alot of different labels and stuff like that, but it's just like, it has to be perfect. I'm not going to sign my life away. — Jhene Aiko

I've never been in that position in my life, where I hate a celebrity so much that I want to call them names. — Jhene Aiko

I'm friends with [exes] and they hear the songs. I can honestly say I don't have any exes I hate. They're artists in some fashion so they understand. — Jhene Aiko

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace ... inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself. — Jhene Aiko

I never felt like I left, I think before anything I am a writer and that's something that I do almost everyday. So it wasnt I guess public,but I still would put out stuff on like MySpace or you know whatever social networks were poppin' at the time. — Jhene Aiko

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko

Suffering is optional. You're gonna have some pain but it doesn't have to make you suffer. — Jhene Aiko

I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social. — Jhene Aiko

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path. — Jhene Aiko

Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today, there's not a thing I would change? I've lived well. Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain but all in all, it's been okay. I've lived well. — Jhene Aiko

Before I had my daughter I actually wanted to do something that I could put out for free, like a mixtape, but it wasn't going to really be a mixtape, it was just going to be songs that I wrote and release for free. — Jhene Aiko

Everyday though, I'm just looking for like- I always ask people, What are you listening to? What sounds are good to you? Alot of people are in their car, in the club or on the internet looking and I just don't do any of that. Usually if I'm out and about it's because I have something to do, because I'm like a really big home body. If I'm at home, im watching Nickelodeon cartoons so sometimes I'm out of the loop with the cool music, but for sure I'm predicting that J.Cole is going to be good. — Jhene Aiko

I think I have patient fans that want quality over quantity. It's more important to me that the project be the best that it can be and the realest it can be rather than rushing a whole bunch of generic songs, because I could do that. I could just put together some songs real quick that I really like. I only write and I only sing for a purpose, so if its not then, it's not going to be rushed. — Jhene Aiko

Sometimes I go and I'll look at people's comments and then responses, covers, choreography and fan videos and after a couple hours it's like, uhhh this is a little like ... I'm like don't indulge in right now. — Jhene Aiko

The way you feel is not my problem. — Jhene Aiko

I just want to meet as many people as I can and talk with as many people as I can, but whatever allows me to do that then that's my main goal. It's just to understand as much as I can about life and how it happens. — Jhene Aiko

Love side, hate side, never in between — Jhene Aiko

I don't feel like I have to use big words or theories to get my point across. People are like, "Whoa. That's crazy" and make it into this crazy thing. — Jhene Aiko

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like. — Jhene Aiko

After I had my daughter, I kind of got comfortable with motherhood and had time to focus on something else then I started "Sailing Souls" with Fisticuffs, who produced the majority of the mixtape. I just wanted to put out something, like it wasnt really for, you know exposure or to get a deal or really anything like that. — Jhene Aiko

I don't think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions. — Jhene Aiko

"Snapped" happened maybe like two months after I released the mixtape. I just like took a break from recording and that was the first song I wrote and recorded after the mixtape. — Jhene Aiko

I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back. — Jhene Aiko

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into. — Jhene Aiko

It's humbling because a lot of times people think because they are the artist or the celebrity or whatever they want to call themselves that they're above being a fan. If you like something, you can like it. You don't have to be afraid to say that so I really appreciate it and you know, to me, people are people. — Jhene Aiko

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself. — Jhene Aiko