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Kelis Quotes

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, ‘You’re a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?’ Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

– Kelis

As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what’s in it.

– Kelis

There’s a point where you think, ‘What else will I do if I don’t do music?’ It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.

– Kelis

Everyone’s attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything – films, music, art – gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

– Kelis

My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They’re very sparse and scattered; it’s not like a huge body of people.

– Kelis

People know ‘Milkshake’ like a jingle, but they don’t really know who I am.

– Kelis

I don’t think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that’s all there is. But, you know, it’s just glitter. My friends who I’ve known since I was 17 – they know who I am.

– Kelis

My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.

– Kelis

The key to sauces is having patience. I’m not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That’s where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

– Kelis

I love lifestyle stuff, I love housewares. I’m really a homebody, honestly. Anything to do with my kitchen, or my house, I’m all about it. I’m working on a sauce line, so that’s kind of exciting. I’m a saucier.

– Kelis

Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It’s part of who I am.

– Kelis

As a child, I’d help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous – she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. ‘Stop! Don’t use that, I have exactly the right utensil.’ After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I’ve become her.

– Kelis

I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who’s, like, the phantom rapper.

– Kelis

I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that’s because, especially if you’re in the States, if you’re black and you sing, then you’re R&B.

– Kelis

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

– Kelis

I can’t live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things.

– Kelis

After ‘Kelis Was Here,’ I was done. I was like, ‘I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.’ I was in this race that I didn’t even realise that I was in.

– Kelis

I’ve done a lot of different tours. For me, I try to go on tours that I think are gonna be fun. It’s, like, grueling, and it’s hard, and there’s got to be an element to it that’s exciting.

– Kelis

Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way I listen to music: put it all together, and it’s a great party.

– Kelis

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

– Kelis

There’s a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I’m not trying to please the masses. It’s not going to happen, so I don’t try.

– Kelis

The album ‘Kelis Was Here’ sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What’s great about food is that it’s less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you’re any good.

– Kelis

I’m a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.

– Kelis

Am I R&B because I’m black? Am I pop because I have a song called ‘Milkshake’? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we’re doing heart transplants here, but we’re just making music!

– Kelis

For me, saying ‘I’m bossy’ is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I’m in control of my life.

– Kelis

I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.

– Kelis