I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.