I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.