I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love it, because one day you're sitting by the phone waiting to do something or not doing anything, and the next day you've got the chance of a lifetime. Those little phone calls don't come up so often, but when they come up, it's fantastic.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player!