“My whole life is queer.” — Christine and the Queens Quote

My whole life is queer.

The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.

Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it all my own, I would go crazy. This is insanely hard, to do an album by yourself. But I admire her for that.

I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will never succeed because it's intertwined with really personal references and really personal ways to exist on stage. They are really strong individuals, and are writing their own songs and know where they want to go.

Television doesn't have a terrific track record of telling queer stories.

I feel like as a queer person, we've all gone through a summer where you've fallen in love with someone.

I think it wasn't until I came out that I was like, 'OK, I'm ready to share my music now' because a lot of my music I was writing was very queer and they were about girls that I'd fallen in love with.

I would definitely love to see a queer rom-com because representation matters. It does so much to help normalize things in the mind of society.

Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.