Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

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

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

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 think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.