Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

I've had a large gay following for many years and have been quite aware of that.

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.