When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.