There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And ...
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
