Tobacco and religious organisations.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to do more. This might be my Scorpio talking, but everything feels more intense than before. I'll probably keep doing what I'm doing and shift gears if something comes along. I'm pretty fluid.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things.