What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.

Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.