Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.

I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.

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

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

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

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.

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.