My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

... 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 think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.

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

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.