There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.