I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

It's nobody's business how you do something.

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

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.