“You are so much more, than your orientation, you know it and I know it.”

The album feels like a new era for me — emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It’s still me.

I’m proud of my sexuality.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game.

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom’s a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you’re doing something right.

I like ‘Rocky Horror.’

The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don’t have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

If something doesn’t look right, throw some glitter on it.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

When I was kid, I remember playing ‘Vogue’ by Madonna over and over and over again.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

We don’t have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where’s the classic pop-rock showman?

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.