I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

Life is the longest death in California.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.