"Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there."

"I’ve always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don’t fake or hide their feelings, and they a…"

"That's when you can build a bridge of light. That's what turns the wrong so right. That's when you can't give up the …"

"Everyday I fight a war against the mirror. I can't take the person starin' back at me. I'm a hazard to myself.Don't l…"

"I can't stay on your life support, there's a shortage in the switch. I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me…"

"Get this party started on a Saturday night, Everybody's waitin' for me to arrive. Sendin' out the message to all of m…"

"You fight about money, 'bout me and my brother. And this I come home to, this is my shelter. It ain't easy growin' up…"

"No attorneys To plead my case. No orbits To send me into outta space. And my fingers Are bejeweled With diamonds and …"

"I've been the girl with her skirt pulled high, Been the outcast never running with mascara eyes. I see the world as a…"

"When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved …"