I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

Humans do not create, we pro-create from that which The Creator has already created.

People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.