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

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

"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 always say what I think, and I'll never change my habit."

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

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

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in and going after your dreams."

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

"We are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give."