Zitat des Tages von Anohni:
I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.
I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
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.
More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.
Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
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.
For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.
Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.
When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.
At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.
I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.
You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.
Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.
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.
America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.
People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?
I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That seems to be, for me, where I've ended up, and I've been there pretty consistently since I was a teenager.
Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.
We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.
