Taylor Dane quotes:

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

I have always loved Ed Norton and Ryan Gosling. Also Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

Loving a man truly and really brings me to my knees.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

Be kind. It's very needed to be respectful to all.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

I don't always win at this, but I know I do better when I meditate.

I feel I am blessed that I have found my stride and relaxed into my life's purpose.

I know peace exists. And we are always changing. It's scary.

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm in the studio. My children and love.

Love is when I smile and breathe deeply down to my toes. I've given myself a gift of caring for myself and learned a new way to look at my issues. And I'm lying in some fresh sheets looking out the window at some visual beauty... a mountain, an ocean, a stream, a forest. A lovely man lying next to me or my babies sleeping.

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.

My son always makes me feel vulnerable.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.

To me, it was about finding new opportunities. I know my voice touches people. It has for years. I can't give that up.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.