The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave.

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.