I'd like everyone to imagine a world where you get a job as Tom, and then the next day you're Tina. Imagine you're in the world where you love what you do, but people say that you can't be who you are.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.