The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.