Anohni

“More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.”

“My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.”

“We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.”

“As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.”

“Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.”

“Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.”

“I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.”

“You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.”

“I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.”

“Reality has been so politicized such that people truly believe, mostly, that there are two versions of reality: a conservative and a liberal version. In my mind, there's only one version of reality and then those who lie about it. Much as in a court of law.”

“Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.”

“Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.”

“The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.”

“There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.”

“Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.”

“At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.”

“I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.”

“When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.”

“Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.”

“What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it.”