And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. But I love the new. I love the energy of the new, the energy of the new act. The young are so important. The young give you the energy, and if you don't notice the young, and you don't give them credit and you don't listen to all sorts of music, then you're missing out on something.

When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor

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

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.