"I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all."

"Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep."

"When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it."

"Confidence and arrogance are not the same. You don't have to be rude to be confident. You just have to like who you are and be proud of who you are with enough grace, and that makes people around like you too."

"Find your confidence, lead with love... the rest will follow."

"In all my work, my thing has always been not to be ashamed of who you are, your body, your physicality, your desires, your sexual fantasies. The reason there is bigotry, sexism, racism, and homophobia is fear. People are afraid of their own feelings, afraid of the unknown and I am saying; don't be afraid."

"I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive."

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

"I'm not very comfortable with what people sometimes say or think about me - things I don't feel responsible for."

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of others."

"I prefer going through fire rather than bypassing it."