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 was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.