I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.

My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.

It is hard work that is supposed to be your greatest possession

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Getting lost is not a waste of time.

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.