I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.