But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

Salvation is neither human effort nor desire.

If life is a joyful serious journey, then peace should be the train and happiness should be the destination.

Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

Loyalty is my biggest thing.

I create the world that I live in.

The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.