I'm not trendy and I'm not popular.

Alexandria Ocasio? I think she's dope.

I'm kind of like a musical Bill Cunningham.

I'm a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.

I was just a queer theater kid from New York City.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

It's apparent that I'm really eccentric and lively.

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

I've been investing in and funding myself since day one.

I don't have a make-up artist and I don't need a stylist.

I have confidence and je ne sais quoi. That is unmistakable.

Music gives me a focused purpose. It saves my life every day.

Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

I try not to be overly nostalgic, and I don't use nostalgia to be kitschy.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.

My place in New York is very authentic, very old New York. I love old New York.

My pheromones and my chemistry and the way I walk - I am divine feminine energy.

Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I'm going to compete.

I truly have a lot of faith in the universe even when I'm down, I'm always good.

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

My definition of God is the highest supreme feeling of beauty and light and happiness.

I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

I just want to purify my body, purify my mind, and make good music and keep living my life.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

I was a happy-go-lucky gothic girl who had an optimistic spirit cos I was suffering a lot at home.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.

I like Marvel because characters look like me and women don't have roles that make them look too sexual.

I am a gorgeous woman. That's not me being egotistical or narcissistic. It's just a fact, I'm a knockout.

To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.

I am really connected to my astral body. Thats why I think the study of chakras and auras are so important.

I've had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.

I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That's what I've always done.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

I actually didn't own any North Face until I was 18 and the first one I had was a gorgeous Blue Extreme and I loved it.

The street-wear and the very androgynous tomboyish girl, that's just not this new persona I'm introducing… it's me 24/7.

Growing up, I loved Boy George, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.

I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not want to touch.

I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang out in downtown culture.

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