I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.