I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to my outsider or insider status and just do the work and play the shows and connect with the people. And not even bother to play this game of keeping score, which is what destroys you.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.