I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.