A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.