There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.
Growing up in Boston and dancing in the streets, you see a lot of things.
Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.
Now we have an audience that is so very eclectic. Big, tremendous fans.
I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
