I didn't choose to be a rapper; it's just my talent.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.

I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.

Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.

My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.

I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.

I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.

I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.

Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature?I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!

Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.

I survived schizophrenia.

Insecurity creates ditches for others and oneself as well.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.