A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal.

Do not let a book get you in a reading slump

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.