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.

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

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.

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

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