I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.