ANDREJ PEJIC

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

Love has no boundaries.

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Other women don't go around saying, 'Wow, I'm female.' They have room in their lives for other things. That's my goal. One day, I would like to be just another girl.

When I was little, the idea of waking up as a girl was like a fairytale. I had this idea that I'd meet a witch who would transform me. From the moment I found out that it was actually possible, I went to bed each night feeling that when it happens, it will be the best day of my life. And it was!

I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

Mum's very proud. She finds every picture of me and has them on every wall.

I read 'The Original Beauty Bible' when I was 16, and it changed my life.

When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don't like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.