74 Quotes by Meshell NdegeOcello

I’m a true believer that unless you’re Prince or Stevie Wonder – and even Prince is showing that he needs help – not everybody can produce themselves. I’m definitely not that person.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don’t know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like ‘Midnight in Paris.’ Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

There’s no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

We’re all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I’ll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It’s like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We’re trying to use a thing we don’t understand to understand ourselves.

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.

It’s funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid – it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

I love children. I’d prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I’m just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don’t have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn’t do it. I am a complete germaphobe.