I love to feel that I'm not above anyone.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.

I think the world tries to put people in a box, like this is the only appropriate way to be beautiful.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

Being in New York, and meeting really amazing, talented, eccentric, and bold people, and just feeling really excited about life, got me really revved up and I just felt like everything was at my fingertips - that I could try anything. I really felt invincible. It was such a shift.