Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.

I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.

Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.

My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.

I didn't choose to be a rapper; it's just my talent.

I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.

I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

Every honest good deed comes with a positive feeling to do more good deeds.

It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

Stability is not immobility.

I didn't have any hair anywhere for almost seven months. So now finally I've got some hair, I'm gonna keep it.

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.