I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Your soul is always trying to guide you in your true life direction towards your highest good and greatest happiness.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

I'm sure there are people who can toggle quickly from all-in caregiving to structured socializing, but I can't think of any offhand.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?