“You really shouldn’t believe what you read in the newspapers. It’s not healthy. Unless you know that the person is very truthful, because people are going to take things out of context or say things that are not true, and that has happened to me on so many occasions. Originally, they had me [as] a transvestite.”

“It is really important that members of Congress and state legislatures hear that this [the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage] is as unacceptable of a thing as could possibly be done against the gay community, and that everybody who votes for this will never get a gay person’s vote or a cent of their money ever again regardless of what else they do. The idea that we would amend the guiding document of our government to make gay people permanently unequal cannot be defended on any ground.”

“The country was really taken over. It was a coup. This man was not elected, he sits in the White House and he’s declaring war. That’s a coup d’état. America should be in the streets picketing. And our boys and our girls, our teenagers and 20- year-olds, are off there killing people. And war begets war.... You know, I don’t believe George Bush is a bad man, but I do think he is dangerous for this nation and the world.”

“I love Madonna; I’m a die-hard fan, I always have been. She was my god when I was eight, and she’s hot. If Madonna came at me with her mouth open, I wouldn’t know what to do. Honestly.”