I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.
Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs
The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism. . . I look at my two boys. . . this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.
I honestly think that it was when the actual voices started to stand up for me. It was the iconic artists like Tony Bennett or Barbara Streisand or Liza Minnelli. When people like that take you under their wing and say in quotations, "He's the next one. He's got my stamp of approval," people trust them.
A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.
I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do the same thing they think works over and over again. " I had an epiphany and called my manager and started a creed with my producers. I promised we'd do whatever was best for the song and the album - no ego would get in the way.
I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.
My view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House. Can't do it.
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.