I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

I want to be true to who I am.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.