I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.