If we're gonna progress as a people we are GOING to REALISE that, as one of my favourite POETS says, the other is a LIE. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

We have a very physical PERFORMANCE art. A lot of times, when you want to achieve a certain emotion, you have to USE professional wrestling ingredients, which are moves or a SEQUENCE of moves.

I KNOW that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's KIND of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a PERSON I do not want to be. So I'm trying my BEST not to become a jerk.

I FEEL LIKE I had more FUN when I was YOUNG.

'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic BODY of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my ENTIRE life on one SETTING; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my SENSE of humor. I was a black SKATER kid.

This thing with everyone knowing you, it's WEIRD, because PEOPLE have this one-sided RELATIONSHIP where they look at your picture and feel they KNOW you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.

I think the reason why 'Red EYE' is popular is because we question the COMMON assumptions that you FIND ELSEWHERE.

The MONEY will COME to you, you've just GOT to KEEP WINNING.

I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I COULD actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I STARTED taking it a little BIT more seriously, but it's ALWAYS something that I KNEW could be something.