The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

It is wise to admit one's wrongs because it creates room for correction.

Don't let your loyalty become your slavery.

Life could begin all over again if you were lucky enough, and I had decided to be lucky.

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.

Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!