For Being Different, It’s Easy. But To

Being A Woman In The Pop World, Sexuality Is Half Poison And Half Liberation. What's The Line? I Don't Have A Line. I Am The Most Sexually Free Woman On The Planet, And I Genuinely Am Empowered From A Very Honest Place By My Sexuality. What's More Primal Than Sex? I Mean, It's So Honest. If I Didn't Think I Had The Talent To Back That Up, I Wouldn't Have Done It.

What I've Discovered Is That In Art, As In Music, There's A Lot Of Truth-and Then There's A Lie. The Artist Is Essentially Creating His Work To Make This Lie A Truth, But He Slides It In Amongst All The Others. The Tiny Little Lie Is The Moment I Live For, My Moment. It's The Moment That The Audience Falls In Love.

There's This Idea That It's All Natural, But Everything's Been Staged To Look Natural. It Is Also An Invention. It's Just That My Inventions Are Different. I Often Get Asked About My Artifice, But Isn't Fashion Based On The Idea That We Can Create A Fantasy?

Knowing That I Inspired Sam Smith Is One Of The Most Powerful Experiences I've Had As An Artist. I Was Sam. I Still Am Sam.

I Think It's Absolutely A Blessing When You Just Know What Your Purpose Is And Your Destiny. I Don't Think It's A Curse At All.