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

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.

She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak, are all within the palm of her hand

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.

My expertise is running businesses.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a kid.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.