What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but I think without healing that and creating more of a balance between the sexes, we will never have balance globally. I feel like I am going deeper and deeper into this space where I came from that I barely understood.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.