The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.

Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?

He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)

You are the creator of your universe, and you are the destroyer of it too.

Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.