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Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.
Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.
I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.
Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.
I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.
Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.
Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.
America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.
I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.
We're all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That's how life has been structured for us.
You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.
This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.
You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.
I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.
Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.
God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.
If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.
As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.
People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?
More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.
For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.
I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.
There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.
If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.
The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.
I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.
We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.
As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.
In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in the world's temperature that was predicted.
Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.
I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.
I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.
Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.
Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the rest of existence is a psychosis that spins us into virulence.
I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.
The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.
We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.
I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That seems to be, for me, where I've ended up, and I've been there pretty consistently since I was a teenager.
I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.
We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.
It's a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother's breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life.
The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough, you can make a fortune. Meanwhile, the working and middle classes have been hollowed out of the system.
As Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing.
When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.
Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.