When you're gay every party is a bad sweater party.

The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

Don't go back over your life with a red pen.

I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which has sometimes if not keeping me off stage kept me from writing regularly and with any kind of confidence.

Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda?

I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.