... 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.

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.

You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

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

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.

I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.

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