Princess Nokia

I've got a lot of male energy.

— Princess Nokia

I'm from Harlem.

— Princess Nokia

I'm not aloof at all.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

I don't have a make-up artist and I don't need a stylist.

— Princess Nokia

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

— Princess Nokia

I was just a queer theater kid from New York City.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

Alexandria Ocasio? I think she's dope.

— Princess Nokia

I'm kind of like a musical Bill Cunningham.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

I'm really into the fact that I could walk into any room and snatch any man in there like it's nothing.

— Princess Nokia

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

My pheromones and my chemistry and the way I walk - I am divine feminine energy.

— Princess Nokia

I'm very 'nothing-bothers-me,' laissez faire. Everything works for me.

— Princess Nokia

Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it,…

— Princess Nokia

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of…

— Princess Nokia

I'm loud, I'm super comedic about my life, and I always try to look for partners who are the same about theirs,…

— Princess Nokia

I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back…

— Princess Nokia

I had been introduced to rapping in a way where women and people did it, it was structured. It had this very…

— Princess Nokia

I started modeling before '1992,' and I had already done Calvin Klein and Target and Gap and Diesel, Reebok, so I had…

— Princess Nokia

I've written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I've done for music, from the visuals…

— Princess Nokia

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang…

— Princess Nokia

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and…

— Princess Nokia

I've always been a champion of love.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

I'm a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

— Princess Nokia

I think Yara Shahidi is amazing.

— Princess Nokia

It's apparent that I'm really eccentric and lively.

— Princess Nokia

I don't even know how I became cool.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Princess Nokia

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

— Princess Nokia

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

— Princess Nokia

There's no money in music. I know that. I think the whole world should know that.

— Princess Nokia