"I represent young black women, and I'm proud of that." — Gabriella Wilson

People are gonna listen to the music whether or not I reveal myself.

When I was a little bitty kid, I was listening to the stuff my parents were listening to. My mom was a huge Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige fan. My dad had a cover band that I sang with, and he loved Parliament, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton, the blues, James Brown.

I think most women, we have intuition. We always know what we always want to find out. We always want to be wrong, and we hate when we're right at the end of the day. People say we love to be right. That's not true. We don't like to be right, because usually we know when it's the truth.

I really just wanted it to be about the music, and get away from, 'Who is she with?' and 'What is she wearing?'