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.

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.

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.

My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.

The 6 greatest detriments to our health, happiness, and ultimate success: Regret, Worry, Guilt, Blame, Gossip, & ResentmentRemoving just one can change your life.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

I'm very opinionated.

Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.