I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.