I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.

Nothing can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars.

My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

I think we’re like farm animals before an earthquake.