I Shouldn't Have Stayed So Long Away.

There Is Order In The Universe, Even Though It Looks Like Chaos. We Separate The World Into Categories: This Is Good And This Is Bad. But Life Is Set Up To Trick Us. It's A Series Of Illusions We Invest In. And Ultimately Those Investments Don't Serve Our Understanding, Because Physicality Is Always Going To Let You Down, Because Physicality Doesn't Last.

People Hear The Soul, Black Influence In My Voice. I Grew Up Listening To Cklw And All The Black Stations Like Wlbs.

I've Slept With Prince.

I Believe What I Practice Has To Do With Something Deeper Than Religion, That It Embodies All Religions, Including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.

Trying To Be A Professional Dancer, Paying My Rent By Posing Nude For Art Classes, Staring At People Staring At Me Naked. Daring Them To Think Of Me As Anything But A Form They Were Trying To Capture With Their Pencils And Charcoal. I Was Defiant. Hell-bent On Surviving. On Making It. But It Was Hard And It Was Lonely, And I Had To Dare Myself Every Day To Keep Going.