“I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It’s nice out here, you know?”

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you’re angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I’ve seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

Fame attracts lunatics.

You don’t know being a performer what kind of performance you’re going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I’m much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

You should never take more than you give.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you’d go nuts.

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’

Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.

Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.

I feel so deeply sometimes I forget that others don’t feel things to these same depths.

Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There’s a void you have when you don’t feel you’ve found the other part of who you are, so I’m in a different place now and that’s nice to experience.

Your feelings are valid but not every argument is.

People are only mean when they are threatened.