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

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 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.

Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you

Rocher was on the floor, crawling on her stomach toward Jate's feet. "I love you..., " she kept repeating, in a demonic whisper. "I have to show you... my butt.

The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review a collection of songs and sketches preferably with a satirical bias.

Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.