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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 think that the power of reinvention is very important.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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