I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.

I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.