I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.