With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

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

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.

Goonies are good enough, good enough for me