SZA started her music career as a protest to her ex-fiance.
Unlike other music artists, her reason could be said to be quite unique and unusual.
While most aspiring musicians aspire to be wealthy and well-known or to have a chart-topping song, the 'Kill Bill' hitmaker saw her goal as proving to her nameless ex-partner-with whom she acknowledges she was "co-dependant"-that she could succeed in life without him.
The "Good Days" hitmaker, whose critically praised album 'SOS' alludes to her complex relationship with her former partner, has achieved enormous success.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she explained: "Some people choose music as a career, and they feel very certain about what they're doing and why they're doing it, but I was never quite certain, and I really only did music to prove a point.
"When I started making music, it was to my ex-fiancé because he was paying for everything. My food, my clothes, where I lived, and he was eight years my senior, so I was so co-dependent.
"And he was so talented, and like, he's a designer - so brilliant. His ex-girlfriends were all lawyers and businesswomen and artists that went to [Rhode Island School Of Design], and all these things, right? And you know, I'm a college dropout. I'm still bartending at the strip club, so it's giving - like, I felt like I lacked value. So, when I started trying to make music, it was this thing that I didn't have to try at but was randomly good at because I've always written poetry and always felt emotional."
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SZA claims that having met her idols, gone platinum, and won a Grammy means that she has accomplished all of her ambitions and that anything more is just a bonus.
"The business side is scary, but on the creative side, it's kind of just like, 'Nah, I don't have any more goals, so I might as well just try at this point.'"
SZA, 34, went on: "I caught up to that on [2017 debut album] Ctrl. I don't have any more goals, and that sounds terrible, but career-wise ... I keep saying that - nobody believes me - but it's just like you don't understand. These are my goals."
She also listed out her achievements so far.
"I have already gone platinum - I didn't think I would ever go platinum - I sold a bunch of records. I got to meet Stevie Wonder, I got to meet Beyoncé and work with her, I got to meet Frank Ocean. My mom came and my dad came to all these cool countries to see me perform. I've had sold-out shows, I got to headline a festival."
"I'm nominated for Grammys. I've won a Grammy. I'm done, for me, personally.
"Anything past this is so much more than I wanted, thought of, dreamed of."
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