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

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

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

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.

An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

There's a lot of idiots in the world, so live with it.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

Politics is the science of urgencies.