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 don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.