Quotes from Princess Nokia

I'm from Harlem.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live within my pain, or live within my sadness, I try to be funny and look at things with a funny view.

Everybody wants to act like I ain't a big deal when I am. I'm one of the most successful, relevant and influential rappers of my generation.

Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.

I've been investing in and funding myself since day one.

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

It took me a long time to get to where I am, but I am here and it is everywhere I want to be. A place where both my artistic merit and hard work meet. A day where I can say, 'Yeah, I'm a musician. A good one.'

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not want to touch.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.

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

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

My ancestors had to keep their customs secret for fear of death or persecution, so it's common to be secretive and discreet about Regla de Ocha. But it's my family's spirituality, so I don't want to keep it secret.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.

Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.

I model a lot and I'm very fortunate and blessed to be able to do as many partnerships I do for an underground musician such as myself.

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.

I truly have a lot of faith in the universe even when I'm down, I'm always good.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

I like a lot of older rock 'n' roll artists, like legends like Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. They really influenced me to be very, very androgynous and very commanding, and very very - I wouldn't say odd, but I would say eccentric.

Oh, I never fit in anywhere. I'm a loner. I don't even have many friends.