My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.