When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

At my core, I know this: God is God. All that lives and breathes flows from him in both original and ongoing states.

Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make.

The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused

Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.

I care about the match. I don't care about, you know, other things. It's like if I'm not happy, it's okay. I want just to be happy, you know. If I'm not happy, fine. Have it, you know.

I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.