I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

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.

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.