'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.
Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.
Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.
Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.
I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.
I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.
I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.
I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.
The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.
I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.
'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.