You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I'm inspired by fashion. I'm inspired by the moonlight. I'm inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.