When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.

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.

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.

As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.