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.

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

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.