When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.

We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.

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.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.