As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

The New Black doesn’t blame other races for our issues. The New Black dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation: it’s a mentality and it’s either going to work for you, or it’s going to work against you. And you’ve got to pick the side you’re going to be on.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.