79 Quotes by Fantastic Negrito

I think I was made for live music. It's just great.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

Everybody agreed I had all this talent, but I didn't know what to make of it.

I'm in a collective with the same guys I met on the streets at 12. The greatest investments I ever made were those friendships.

When I was born, my mother said all the nurses wanted to come see the colored baby.

I usually go to secondhand stores and find what I can. I like finding interesting things: vests, blazers. I tell the band, 'We got to look good when we're up there.' I learned it from Miles Davis. I read about his suits in his biography. Suits mean you're getting paid, and I like the idea that he looked good in his suits.

I became Fantastic Negrito, and I felt like there was a rawness and an honesty in that music that I could relate to. That I was ready, finally, in my life to be that honest with myself.

The streets spoke to me in a way that religion didn't.