The first question [American college kids] asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.

I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.

This has always been my problem with genres is that they've turned into marketing tools. I've never been a person that allows themselves to be in any kind of box and I think that genres can be used as tools to define BPM or something but I think they're suffocating of music and other art. And I think they're inaccurate when they come to describing my work. Maybe other people like defining it, but I don't.

There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.

If you've ever seen album covers for Arab female pop stars, it looks like the designer was paid five dollars to make them, and the extreme femaleness is astounding.

I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.

The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.