My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

If you jump, you best jump far.

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

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.