When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

When I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

I grew up with the motto of "they can't kill you and eat you," and I still think that's right. You sure as hell can't! When it comes to speaking about my body makes other people uncomfortable but it doesn't make me uncomfortable. It makes them think more about themselves than it makes them judge me. I've always had this body and had to live with it. I've never been a little thing. I've been smaller but I've never been small, even as a baby. I've never had that window into that kind of world where people only talk to you because you're conventionally sexy.

The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.

I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.