I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion...

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.