... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

Gayness is a non-issue.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.