I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

See what I have to put up with every night?

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.