I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.

[My father] was not a musical man.

I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.