We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The greatest wealth is well-being.

Do what gives you joy and you will enjoy what you do.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's got an Apple computer and he really likes Beyonce so he must be a liberal."

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.