In-Betweenness Quotes

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in the middle. But it means I never have borders in my head.

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

I never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.

Where do I really belong? I avoid saying everywhere - which switches all too easily to nowhere. Instead, when pressed, I call myself a fractalist.

It's tough, because I come to Singapore, and people say I'm not Singaporean, and I go to England, and people say I'm not English. It's really hard to find your place, not just in the entertainment industry, but in life.

Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

All of us, we are not one thing: we're always between two worlds, and the idea of not being sure is very appealing to me.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.