Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.