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.

Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.

It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.