I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.

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

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

I'm 33 and in my "Jesus year," and I want it all right now. I want a perfect body. I want to have a perfect love affair. I want every member of my family to be healthy and happy. And I want the world to save itself and for America to realize that it has to give up its idea of being an empire. Wait until I hit 40; then it'll all come crumbling down.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

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?