Sky Ferreira on online abuse: "It's pretty petty and shitty that I'm supposed to be okay with being called a bitch or a slut or torn apart on my appearance daily (all day & every day). Sexual/verbal harassment isn't funny, it's mostly unsettling & at a certain point intolerable...and abusive."

Run The Jewels' Killer Mike on Ferguson: "You motherfuckers will not own tomorrow. We will not live in your fear, we will not accept your cages. We know you don’t value my skin, and we know you do value his but you know what? We’re friends and nothing is gonna devalue that."

Halsey on heteronormativity: "Lesbians in music videos are often portrayed in a hypersexualised manner, like they can only exist for the pleasure of men, for the pleasure of pornography, and otherwise it’s not acceptable. Any website making a big deal out of me doing a video that doesn’t follow a hetero-normative plotline implies that it’s not normal, that it’s something to have a big deal made of it."

Mykki Blanco on HIV: "I've been HIV Positive since 2011, my entire career. Fuck stigma and hiding in the dark, this is my real life. I'm healthy I've toured the world 3 times but ive been living in the dark, its time to actually be as punk as i say I am."

Ezra Furman on genderqueerness: "I have always been uncomfortable with masculinity. Since I was young, 'acting like a man' appeared to me as a set of suffocating rules that everyone around me was enforcing with their disapproval of and disgust with all that was even faintly feminine in me."

Savages on Paris + freedom: "Music will prevail, we need it more than before. I still think there's freedom to be gained, and other people say that there's too much freedom taken. We will fight for the freedom, for that joy and for music to be our religion."

Ryn Weaver on body hair: "What's wrong with nature? No one should feel the need to apologize for not shaving. what is this world? Ur too busy and excited about life to shave? Cool. I like u."

Sleaford Mods on Labour: "Labour needs to take some time to come back round again and work things out. Maybe it’s something that will scare the Tories a bit more and give Labour MPs more courage to be more leftfield in their thinking, instead of pandering for votes, which is what went wrong."

Le1f on queer rap: "If people can make records that are about cars, drugs, women, and money, and that makes sense, then I can make songs that are about misogyny, misandry, homosexuality, transphobia, Black Lives Matter, and all that should makes sense, too."

Nicki Minaj on police brutality: "It's sickening, and I've been reading so many people saying, 'Why are we surprised?' That's what's really sad: that we should somehow be used to being treated like animals. It's gotten to the point where people feel like there's no accountability: If you are law enforcement and you do something to a black person, you can get away with it."

Lauren Mayberry on online misogyny: "These people never learn that violence against women is unacceptable. But they also never learn that women will not be shamed and silenced and made to disappear. I am not going anywhere. So bring it on, motherfuckers. Let's see who blinks first."

Kali Uchis on industry excess: "As I continue to be in the music industry, I see so many label heads or A&Rs having all these lunches and billing it on their company cards, and having endless amounts of sushi and throwing it all out afterwards. Excess is everywhere. Why don't you just put it into a box and give it to a homeless person outside?"

Kendrick Lamar on race relations in America: "So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street when gang banging make me kill a n***a blacker than me. Hypocrite!"

Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall on Syria: "Truly saddened and ashamed by the vote tonight. So, so sorry to the innocent people of Syria... " Later, when her tweet was mocked, she wrote, "Sure it's not the first time a young woman has been mocked for having a political opinion."

Benjamin Clementine on Paris: "You've got to go out there and show these people that you're not scared of them. Terrorism means that they're trying to create fear. I personally think that we need to out there: every musician and really sing and give the people music. It's one of the few things that can save all of us."

Kate Tempest on UK politicians: "And it's back to the house of lords with slapped wrist / They abduct kids and fuck the heads of dead pigs / But him in a hoodie with a couple of spliffs / Jail him, he’s the criminal."