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 really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

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.

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

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

If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.