There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.

Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.

Decriminalizing bodies - this is a big and growing movement.

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.

The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix.

'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way and he is only honest who is not discovered.

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

I am very suspicious of people.

Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.