Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

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 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.

The way that I sing, what I sing about, what I wear, who I am, this is me. I was born this way.

You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.

I was so ashamed of who I was.