FKA Twigs

Yeah.

It's like, I know that like being a woman and being a woman of color

and being good at something is not enough.

Like I know that and I accept it.

I'm not saying it's right, but I accept it that in this year that I am born and in this era of the world that I am born, I know that I have to be more than excellent to be invited to the table and to stay at the table and to be recognized.

I know that I'm not afforded the same graces as other people that look differently to me or have different family backgrounds that are maybe more connected or affluent financially.

So it's just, you know, there's no choice.

It's something that me and my hair stylist Louie always say, like sometimes we have the craziest shoot the next day that we have this ambition to do this crazy hair and neither one of us are gonna sleep, but we just look at each other and we just say there's no choice because we will do it, there's no choice.

So that's kind of how I see it.

It's taken me two, three, four, five years

five times longer in my career to get the footing or the you know I guess like the recognition I guess in a way for what I've contributed to my industry um and I'm not bitter about that like I'm at peace with it because I knew that I would have to work this hard to get there and there's no choice so what am I going to do not do it

Not turn up.

Moan about it.

You know, like I'm not saying that there haven't been times where I felt disheartened because there have been, but for the most part,

I'm just really grateful to be an artist and to create and to have a vision.

I'm just grateful to even have the ideas.

So I just want to do everything really well.

I don't really know how much I thought about it.

It was a very quick decision.

I think it was like FK1 or F, I don't know, I had like a different,