I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.