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

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.

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.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

We got to open for Soundgarden, which was pretty cool.