If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in.

People say we're similar with Lady Gaga, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same! None of her music's reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know? She's not progressive, but she's a good mimic.

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!

I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.

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

I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.