Uchis: "Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment."

Uchis: "I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it."

Uchis: "Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life."

Uchis: "I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more."

Uchis: "I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own."

Uchis: "No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself."

Uchis: "It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety."

Uchis: "It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too."

Uchis: "I'm constantly progressing. My style is changing every day."

Uchis: "My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow."

Uchis: "I made music just for myself."

Uchis: "I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it's really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you're doing, or else people are gonna try you."

Uchis: "When I was little, I went through a lot of phases, like any girl."

Uchis: "It's really not easy to be an artist. It's not easy to put yourself out there and be honest. I'm making things that are really happening to me, and it's not easy to share that with the world."

Uchis: "I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing."

Uchis: "I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own."

Uchis: "That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition."

Uchis: "I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me."

Uchis: "Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you."

Uchis: "I'm into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It's just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you."

Uchis: "I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things."

Uchis: "I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself."

Uchis: "I just know what I want for myself."

Uchis: "I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world."

Uchis: "I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging."

Uchis: "I grew up being very different and being ready to fight people. I wanted to stand up for myself, and I wanted to not let anyone think they know me based on appearances, so I was always just fighting back with people."

Uchis: "I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself."

Uchis: "We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us."

Uchis: "No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end."

Uchis: "I was kicked out of the house, and I was really difficult as a kid. I'm happy it happened because I was able to grow so much from it, you know? It's always hurtful to feel that you can't be on the same page with people that you love as much as your family. Sometimes they don't know how to deal with all the things that are coming at them."

Uchis: "I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me."

Uchis: "If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing."

Uchis: "I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new."

Uchis: "I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me."

Uchis: "I think everybody needs to be more empathetic."