If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.

I think they were scared of me because I was different.

I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man - and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning.