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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."