You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.