Quotes from Princess Nokia

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

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

Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I'm going to compete.

I've written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I've done for music, from the visuals to the business, I did it. And I'm really proud of that.

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and it said, 'Someone that doesn't appeal to society, someone who doesn't fit in.' We had this whole conversation about it, and I realized it cohered to the punk-rock world that I was into.

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

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

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

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

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

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'm very conscious of my body, and how I take care of it. I like clean foods, drink a lot of water, and soak up much sunlight and positive energy as I can.

I've always been a champion of love.

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

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.

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

My definition of God is the highest supreme feeling of beauty and light and happiness.

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

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

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.

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

I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.

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.