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.

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

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.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

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.

Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.