When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and it is the same kind of music that we call disco or rock'n'roll or a whole list of names that we can call it. Call it what you will, nothing will change the fact that certain kinds of music will make you want to celebrate or party.

I've lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.