I give zero fucks about what anybody thinks that I’m doing. I don’t care what you think about me because I’m wearing a dress to the Oscars. What you’re seeing in the past two years is the result of me making that choice, all those years ago. That was what motivated me to do things differently. Nobody wanted to see me do anything but be the fairy clown. When I asked for what I wanted, I was dismissed. In the late 90s, I made the decision that that was no longer acceptable for me, and the work dried up. So I became a clown I became the flamboyant queen. This was the late 1980s, early 1990s, and nobody knew where to put that kind of energy in a mainstream way. When I started out in this business, I came to New York City and played my trump card, which was my singing voice.
