I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.

My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side.

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.