Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

I'm lonely and I'm still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.