The Creole Corner

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee a the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.’”

“I ate shit for so long, being told I didn’t fit the mold and that I was ‘too pop’ or ‘too theater’… I’ve always been delusionally ambitious to the point where people don’t understand me.”

“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”