"There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!"

“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.”

“It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.”

“A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.”

“Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.”

“Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.”

Source : Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, C. R. A. Foakes (1996). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.114, Manchester University Press

“Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.”

Source : Cornelia Meigs (1987). “Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women”, Scholastic

“You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.”

“Are you pro- or anti-macassar?”