All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.

True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

This is how I feel about everything that's out of your control: once you make a record, it's not yours anymore. There's nothing you can do. It's the way I feel about political movements - both of those things grow on their own.