I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

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.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.