I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the rules. It's not a major problem; it's just when you get a little older you realize how much your body thanks you when you are good to it.

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

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 do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

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

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.