Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.

I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.

Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that.

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.