I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.