Everything really came together on '1992.' That isn't to dismiss my earlier works - they were great - but when I focused myself on hip-hop everything just clicked.

I model a lot and I'm very fortunate and blessed to be able to do as many partnerships I do for an underground musician such as myself.

I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not want to touch.

I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That's what I've always done.

Growing up, I loved Boy George, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.

Queer culture was introduced to me at a very early age. It was introduced to me with a semi-positive facet because no one in my family is remotely homophobic or closed-minded.

Oh, I never fit in anywhere. I'm a loner. I don't even have many friends.

To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

My mother picked my name with a spiritual intention: Destiny, 'what was meant to be.' She was a very special woman, and a gifted witch.

The music that I will continue to make will certainly draw upon those experiences of being a loner, of being an emo goth kid, of being a New York City aficionado, of being a witch, a feminist, a brown radical woman.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.

I like a lot of older rock 'n' roll artists, like legends like Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. They really influenced me to be very, very androgynous and very commanding, and very very - I wouldn't say odd, but I would say eccentric.

That's why I created Smart Girl Club in the first place because I really wanted to combat the non-inclusion that I felt in a lot of places.

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang out in downtown culture.

The street-wear and the very androgynous tomboyish girl, that's just not this new persona I'm introducing… it's me 24/7.

My place in New York is very authentic, very old New York. I love old New York.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

I used to go onstage with no makeup on. And then I realised I was looking a little crazy and I had to grow up a bit and look more presentable as a woman.

I had been introduced to rapping in a way where women and people did it, it was structured. It had this very very political structure to it and if you didn't follow the structure, you weren't considered validated or real and that just gave me anxiety.

Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.

Jordans? No. I thought mohawks, leather jackets, studs, piercings, colored hair, leopard print, platforms, all the bondage wear, I thought that was the coolest thing.

I'm a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.

I've had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.

It's apparent that I'm really eccentric and lively.

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

I've written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I've done for music, from the visuals to the business, I did it. And I'm really proud of that.

The world is going to come to a place where we're all being spied on and nothing is private.

I've got a lot of male energy.

I think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.

My experience is that white kids love hip-hop, and brown and black kids love rock music. That shows that brown kids - they carry emotion, they carry pain, they carry oppression and strife.

All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live within my pain, or live within my sadness, I try to be funny and look at things with a funny view.

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

I've been investing in and funding myself since day one.

I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back and forth on the subway - that's where I get my best writing done.

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.

I am really connected to my astral body. Thats why I think the study of chakras and auras are so important.

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and it said, 'Someone that doesn't appeal to society, someone who doesn't fit in.' We had this whole conversation about it, and I realized it cohered to the punk-rock world that I was into.

I've always been a champion of love.