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.

Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.

You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.