I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.