Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.