There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

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.

Give people strength and encouragement, build them up with good words!

Self-respect is the root of discipline

The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn’t threaten you or who you are.

I bend, but I do not break.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.