While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

I want people to see the truth.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

People are amazingly beautiful not because of how they look

I have a dark sense of humor.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.