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

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

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

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

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

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.

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.