I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like ‘Midnight in Paris.’ Nostalgia isn’t so enticing. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he’s been reincarnated, or if he’s looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
It’s hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
It’s very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I’m like, this all fades to black, and it’s gone. It’s dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing – I thought they were genius in knowing that’s as much as a listener can take. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that’s when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down. Meshell Ndegeocello Read Quote
