I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

When you’re young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.