Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

I run a lot every morning.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Bushcraft is what you carry in your mind and your muscles.

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

I've always been a slave to my heart.