I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive.

I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

I like to make people think.

I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.