I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.
The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left
The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
I had a couple of experiences as a kid with animals where I hurt them, kind of unintentionally, and when I saw that a human being can hurt an animal it really affected me. And my kids. . . they became animal rights activists.
Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.