My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

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

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

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