Banks: "I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want."

Banks: “Your problems with me are not my problems, those are your problems.”

Banks: "I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America."

Banks: “I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.”

Banks: “I don't live on other people's terms.”

[On her work routine]

Banks: "I drink, I smoke weed, I don't really bathe. I might go off and masturbate and talk to myself in the mirror for hours. It's a sort of psychosis. I work during witching hours, 3 a.m., 4 a.m., when the dead writers, the failed writers and the failed musicians who are dead are roaming around." 

Banks: "I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it."

Banks: "The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue."

[On settling down]

Banks: "I want a really smart man, who has a lot of silly jokes and stuff. I have to tone it down if I want to get that."

Banks: “White boys do eat p*ssy better than everyone else, though, I will say that. Maybe it's those thin white-boy lips!”

[On casting spells on her ex]

Banks: "It wasn't about being vindictive or trying to kill him or anything—I just wanted to dominate him."

Banks: "I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms."

[On wanting to have sex with Barack Obama]

Banks: "He's so fine. Those big-ass white teeth and ears hanging off his head? I'm like, 'Oh my god, I want to fuck the president.'" 

Banks: "The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent."

Banks: “I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.”

Banks: "Sometimes I feel like I float in and out of different personalities."

[On her past anxieties]

Banks: "There was a point where I was questioning everything. 'Am I brushing my teeth at the wrong time? Am I drinking too much? Smoking too much weed? What have I done?'" 

Banks: "You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself."

Banks: “I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.”

Banks: "I'm tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don't even know what they're listening for or to."

Banks: “Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already.”

[On Iggy Azalea]

Banks: "Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?"

Banks: "I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry."