Jillian Hervey Quotes

I think having wild, huge hair, is me being my own version of a lioness.

I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection.

I've always loved vintage and I never like to have something someone else has.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

My main goal was to not tell my mom anything or anyone anything. Even within our family, we like to do it ourselves, we like to be our own boss, and we don't like asking for help.

Making that statement of 'I'm not afraid to be untamed.' It's just kind of the marriage of those two things.

I'm a Gemini and Lucas Goodman is a Leo, so we definitely wanted some duality. We definitely balance each other out in a lot of ways, but we're also very different.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

I think my life dramatically shifted when I met Lucas [Goodman] and it wasn't even planned. I had a very clear vision of what I was going to do.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.

I was also just strong and quick - it wasn't hard for me to learn how to dance. I was a natural at it.

I wanted to fight to get into the front. I was just hungry to do it.

Between my mom and dad, I would hear a lot of Earth, Wind, and Fire. My mom loved Chaka Khan, so that was on in the car a lot.

It's definitely evolved from where it started - for 'Treat Me Like Fire,' I wanted something extremely wild because I was going to be running through the woods and I wanted it really nappy and crazy.

I think when we were starting off, I picked a group of women to represent me. The top tiers of everyone that I've worked with are women. It felt more comfortable because they can relate to me.

It doesn't necessarily always come down to race in the music industry. It can be whoever has the most money, has the most power, and that's really the struggle - dealing with how crazy money is.

I think, more importantly, it's about who is your core team? Who are the people around you that are going to fight for you and make sure that's all protected?

In general, I think the best thing to do is to connect with other females. I love meeting other female artists and feeling like we're all rooting for each other. I think that's shifted even more.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

I think just being a '90s kid - I was not a Backstreet Boys girl, I was definitely into NSYNC.

I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.

I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.

I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.

This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.

To be on stage, to be sharing a stage with Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, SZA, Kelis, and all these incredible women, I'm like 'When did this happen?'

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

I'm always looking for people to feel connected to me and inspired in their own right.

I just wanted to shed everything and do the things I really wanted to do. All the things I was scared of, I just wanted to try. It was like a clearing.

Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.

I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.

I got to speak to Missy Elliott on the phone and she was like, 'I see you and just keep doing your thing,' and to hear that was incredible.

I love to feel that I'm not above anyone.

This world is going in all sorts of directions, but I think all you can do is get people to think about things in a different way, because sometimes people aren't even thinking.

You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

Transformation comes in a lot of different forms, but going natural really helped me love myself.

The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.

I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.

That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.

I prefer to do things by myself, but I always bring in people who inspire me.

I've always been an animal lover my entire life.