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.

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.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

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

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.