“Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I...” — Kelela Quote

“Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.”

“I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and melody that I already have set. Everything is left to chance.”

“My queer black women peers are the ones who make me not feel crazy. The way we act is so instinctive.”

“There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.”

“Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.”

“I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.”