I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, "Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here." I find it vaguely sinister, even.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

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