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

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.

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.

I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.

Make your heart the most beautiful home.

Worship is forever.

Despite her fears she found, The secret to an outstanding life, Is risking the fall, For the possibility of flight.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.

I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.