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The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.
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The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.
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The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.
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I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.
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I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.
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Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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My music is not really complicated. It's not really complicated and it's not - I wouldn't say simple - but it's not too, like, looking forward. So actually, like, the sound I have now, maybe it's a little bit better than the one I had, or whatever, but I don't feel uncomfortable yet with my music, you know?
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
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And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.