I was a happy-go-lucky gothic girl who had an optimistic spirit cos I was suffering a lot at home.

I'm very 'nothing-bothers-me,' laissez faire. Everything works for me.

I'm loud, I'm super comedic about my life, and I always try to look for partners who are the same about theirs, and with that I just try to always find a partner who I can have a laugh with who completely understands me before I begin to share anything.

Alexandria Ocasio? I think she's dope.

There's no money in music. I know that. I think the whole world should know that.

I actually didn't own any North Face until I was 18 and the first one I had was a gorgeous Blue Extreme and I loved it.

Music gives me a focused purpose. It saves my life every day.

I'm kind of like a musical Bill Cunningham.

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life of the party and enjoy exuberance outside of pain.

I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.

When I started out rapping, I became very frightened by the idea that people were trying to pigeonhole me. That's usually what happens to most female rappers. They fit in a box and there's a prototype or person they're compared to.

I don't think many people have met someone like me. I don't think the world gets to see too many women like me, and I enjoy being that woman.

I'm from Harlem.

I'm not trendy and I'm not popular.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

I don't even know how I became cool.

I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.

I just want to purify my body, purify my mind, and make good music and keep living my life.

I'm not aloof at all.

I started modeling before '1992,' and I had already done Calvin Klein and Target and Gap and Diesel, Reebok, so I had been modeling for a little bit.

I like Marvel because characters look like me and women don't have roles that make them look too sexual.

I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.

I have confidence and je ne sais quoi. That is unmistakable.