I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages.

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.