I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.