The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling.

I don't want to face the reality of what people want from a female pop star. Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

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

Pop music will never be low brow.