Knowing that I inspired SAM SMITH is one of the most powerful experiences I've had as an artist. I was Sam. I still am Sam.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

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.

Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.