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 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 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.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

I love to play music. I'm terrible at it, but I love learning about it .

By far the best proof is experience.

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!