I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it.

Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.