Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.

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

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

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.

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.