One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

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?

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.

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

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

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