If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.

I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out.