I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

I have a good face for what I do.

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.