He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.