Angel Haze

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

I love to listen to books on tape.

I love rock women.

Love is boundary-less.

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.