David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.

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.

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.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.