Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo is an American singer and songwriter, who embarked on her music career contributing vocals and appearing in several music videos for R&B group B2K. At the time, she was known as B2K member Lil’ Fizz’s “cousin”, though she is not actually related to him. These Jhene Aiko quotes will motivate you.
Best Quotes of Jhene Aiko
- “I belong to the world.I’m in a relationship with the world.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it down and I would turn it into a poem.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “No music while making love… the sound of the love being made is better than music.” ~ Jhene Aiko, Jhene Aiko quotes about love
- “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
-
“Yeah, I mean I’m a water sign. I’m a Pisces.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “If you look up in the night sky and see this light that’s flashing colors, that’s Sirius. It’s a star system, and it looks like there’s a party going on. What I like to believe in my dreams and imagination is, there’s some of us on Earth that come from there, indigos and star seeds, who are hyper sensitive to feelings and seasons.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “I just like being a regular person.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “A lot of time when I’m creating songs, they’re in real time. When I’m writing the song, I feel what I’m feeling for its full potential. As soon as the song is over, I’m like, I created art.” ~ Jhene Aiko
-
“I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.” ~ 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
- “I had my baby around 20 and I was always working on music, but I was always working on music, but I was doing other stuff as well.” ~ 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’ve always been very spiritual, since I was a very, very young child. The older I get, I’m reading more, I’m experiencing more, and so that’s all reflected in all of my music. All of my fans are pretty familiar with me and my beliefs. It’s all about connecting to yourself and sticking to your own spirituality.” ~ Jhene Aiko
-
“I don’t think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions.” ~ 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’m trying to teach people not to be selfish. That’s the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we’re not in a sexual relationship.” ~ 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 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 think as a person, I have a whole bunch of different sides to me.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that’s always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from…it’s great.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “I never felt like I left, I think before anything I am a writer and that’s something that I do almost every day. So it wasn’t 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
- “I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs because it’s almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “When I find something good, I stick to it for like a month. I’m usually late on like other stuff. Kendrick Lamar, I can play that often.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “I actually have a young readers’ series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.” ~ Jhene Aiko
-
“I appreciate all the people that can respect and appreciate my music.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.” ~ 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
- “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, Jhene Aiko quotes about life
- “I never saw a distinction between a man and a woman. My grandparents and my mother were great examples of men and women, and they taught me equality. So I would fight with boys and wear my cousin’s clothes. I would do whatever I wanted, and that’s where I still stand today.” ~ Jhene Aiko
-
“I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.” ~ 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
- “Me as a person…I’m really laid back, I’m really an on my own time type of person so its just kind of like if I have to compromise some of that for the mainstream success…to me its not really worth it. I just like to sing.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision like “Oh I want to be a singer”, it was like I grew up around it, I was singing because it was just natural for me to sing.” ~ Jhene Aiko
-
“You have got to trust the signs. Everything will turn out fine” ~ 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
- “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
- “Because people love music, I feel it’s my responsibility to produce more of the music and to get it out to more people, so like I said If the mainstream route does that without compromising me being happy as a person then that’s something I’ll do.” ~ Jhene Aiko, Jhene Aiko quotes about music
- “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 touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.” ~ 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
- “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
- “I guess I just developed more of an interest to actually be a part of the design, picking out the fabric and just being more involved. I never really considered myself a fashion person, but then I just realized that fashion is just another way of self expression and that’s pretty much what I’m most passionate about.” ~ 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
- “With my career, everything I do is me. There’s no one that handles telling me what I should be about or how I should dress or anything. I’m hands on with absolutely everything. When I’m writing a song, I’m already thinking of the visual for the song and I’m already thinking of what I’m going to wear in that visual and what I’m going to wear when I perform. It all goes hand in hand. Everything I do is just me expressing different sides of myself.” ~ Jhene Aiko quotes
- “I know like the Wiz Khalifah one, got me excited because I like his music, and its almost like you know I can relate to his music, so I feel like dang if he listens to my stuff and thought it was good then maybe I’m as good as him, you know what I mean?” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “I’m creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.” ~ Jhene Aiko
-
“What you create for you,no one can take from you.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “You have gotta 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
- “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, Jhene Aiko about happiness
- “Cause nothing really is and everything really isn’t.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren’t life. I’d rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap.” ~ Jhene Aiko
-
“Life only gets harder, but you gotta get stronger.” ~ 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, Jhene Aiko quotes about peace
- “I’m cool with nothing cause even nothing is something” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “I stopped looking at people’s opinions. It’s easy to get caught up in what other people think.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.” ~ Jhene Aiko
-
“Love side, hate side, never in-between” ~ 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
- “The way you feel is not my problem.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “Just be yourself and wear deodorant.” ~ 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
- “Shame on you for staying the same.” ~ Jhene Aiko
- “There’s no slowing down as the globe spins ‘round and ‘round. You gotta keep going.” ~ Jhene Aiko
