I wanted to go to Portland because it’s a really good book town.
I had a really happy childhood – my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
Everyone thinks of God as a man – you can’t help it – Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
I don’t think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don’t think their dirty parts are any good, really.
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen – a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children – I learned a lot.
My mother answers all my fan mail.
Maybe I’ll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.
A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.
A lot of children don’t have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
I know I’m a strong performer. I’m not an evolved musician.
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
I felt alien my whole life, but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.