I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

Goals reflect your choice of destination.

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine

We only have ten years to save the oceans