21 King Princess Quotes for You to Enjoy

King Princess

American Musician

Born: Dec 19, 1998

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I'll just say I'm lucky. I've got the dopest girl in my corner. King Princess

Girl Corner Say Got Just Lucky

I've seen so many beautiful, strong, talented women stifled by male ego in rooms, and I want every young woman who feels that their music is being taken from them to know that they have a voice, and they have the tools, and that it's possible. King Princess

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Growing up with a dad who was a classic-rock guy, I felt out of place with what was happening in pop culture. The Beatles, Zeppelin, T. Rex - that, for me, was the music that could never leave our vocabulary. King Princess

I'm just playing songs for my friends and for people, and they're just like, 'Wow, this is powerful.' I'm excited. It's also important that, in the record, I move the focus a little bit away from me to more about the things that I think about, communities like drag, gender expression, and friendship-concepts that go beyond me. King Princess

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I'm a great example of somebody who is gay but exists on a very complicated gender spectrum. I'm okay with that uncertainty, and I'm okay with existing in a gray area and not always being sure. King Princess

I spent a lot of time preparing for releasing music and then not a lot of time releasing music. King Princess

Music Time Spent Releasing Lot Then Preparing

It's time for gay people to be in the industry and talking about their stories. King Princess

Time Gay People About Industry Talking Stories

Gak encompasses so many things, like, 'Tonight is going to be a gak and a half.' If it's going to be a 'big gak,' it's going to be major. King Princess

Half Big Major Like Going Many Things Tonight

When I do makeup, it's performative. I don't really wear makeup, but I use it as a tool to talk about gender and sexuality. King Princess

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I take my inspiration from New York, and I bring it to L.A. and use it as a quiet place to do my work. King Princess

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I was like, 'I'm an academic!' I'm not at all. It turns out I'm not great at that. King Princess

Great Out Like Academic Turns

I think that was my biggest fear - censoring myself and putting myself into a cookie cutter to be representative. But I think what I realised is we don't need that. King Princess

Myself Fear Think Putting Representative Biggest Realised Cookie Need

I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name. King Princess

Myself Soul Safety Think My Soul Perfectly Name Get Different

What I didn't tell her was that I distinctly remember walking out of my junior year English class reading, 'Amandla Stenberg comes out as queer.' She unknowingly set a precedent in my life, a gold standard of how to be proud and exist in the intersectionality of multiple identities that were one thought of as being conflicting. King Princess

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Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms. King Princess

I've been working in music since I was a little kid. I would do background singing in my dad's studio all the time when I was a kid. I went to label meetings when I was pretty young, and obviously my goal was, like, 'No, we're gonna hold off.' King Princess

Pop music has been the center of change, you know? And positive messages. I would love to get back to that place because I think we've lost it a little bit. King Princess

We released '1950,' and I felt so grateful for the response from the queer community as well as just musicians and people in the industry responding to it and validating the art I had made. It makes me feel super hopeful. King Princess

As a person in the LGBT community, I feel like I've begun to do my job. King Princess

Job Community Feel Like Person Begun

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