My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She’d buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.
Some years I’m the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone’s so over me, and I’m just so past my sell date.
I’m just the worst little Buddhist in town.
Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.
I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.
If you’re black in this country, if you’re a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that’s all right because they’re making a total mess of it. We’re chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it’s a difficult task, but it’s not.
I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
People are negative no matter what you do.
I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.
What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can’t do that, And there’s no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I’ve got time to think it through, And maybe I’m too good for you!
I’ve been up and down so many times that I feel as if I’m in a revolving door.
If you’re waiting for someone to believe in you, you’ll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.
One thing about prejudices – once you break one of them, you’re screwed, because then they all have got to go.
Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there’s no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.
Christian said he’d call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.
I’m still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
There’s not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, ‘I can get through this.’
Going hungry never bothered me – it was having no clothes.
I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength.